“The state Senate’s Budget chairman, Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), said it doesn’t make sense to plan the state’s budget around potential financial catastrophe. California could
The opening words of Governor Jerry Brown’s recent California state budget should ring true. “Since the January Budget, the state’s economy has strengthened and revenues
Medicaid debates over expansion and program cuts are raging throughout the states as higher healthcare costs and enrollment figures strain state budgets. California Common Sense’s
Last week on this blog, Joe Matthews compared the California’s annual battle for state budget dollars to a game between two teams: Team Educate and
To hear some people tell it, California is out of the metaphorical woods. Just a few years ago, worries were at the forefront for citizens
Last week, in his State of the State address, Governor Jerry Brown acknowledged that California’s state government faces a number of outstanding commitments. He said,
Among other points, the latest analysis from California Common Sense — Concentrated Disadvantage in California Schools: The New Status Quo by Kimberly Ang — found that 72%
California Common Sense released a brief report called “California Welfare Overpayments: Fraud, Internal Errors, and Limited Investigation.” The report finds $848 million in outstanding CalWORKs overpayments
California Common Sense (CACS) released a brief report (and accompanying data) analyzing the impact of rising personnel costs on the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)