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| WCLP Legislative Updates and Views
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| News from the CA Budget Project
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| Proposed Cuts to SSI/SSP and CAPI Would Affect Nearly 950,000 Californians | Two CBP fact sheets released today document the local impact of Governor Schwarzenegger’s proposed cuts to programs that help low-income seniors and people with disabilities meet basic living expenses. The Governor proposes to reduce SSI/SSP payments for individuals and eliminate the Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI), which provides state-funded cash assistance to legal immigrants [...]  | | 3/11/2010 10:37:00 PM |
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| California’s Economy: Worse Than Originally Thought and Recovering With Fits and Starts | The Great Recession’s impact on California’s job market is worse than analysts originally thought. The state has lost nearly 1.4 million jobs since the recession began in California in July 2007, according to revised data from the Employment Development Department. That’s 339,000 more jobs lost than the data suggested prior to the recent revisions. If [...]  | | 3/10/2010 10:23:56 PM |
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| More Than 1 Million Children Could Lose Health Benefits or Coverage | Governor Schwarzenegger’s proposal to eliminate the Healthy Families Program would increase the number of California children without health coverage by more than 1 million. This is the second year that the Governor has suggested such a drastic cut to children’s health coverage programs. Healthy Families provides low-cost health, vision, and dental coverage to children in [...]  | | 3/9/2010 10:39:43 PM |
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| On the Docket in Sacramento This Week: Federal Funding, Enterprise Zones | We’ve been blogging for more than a year now, and we’ve noticed that our posts listing upcoming committee hearings are particularly well-read. As a result, we hope to start blogging regularly about upcoming hearings that may be of interest. Two this week in the State Capitol in Sacramento are worth noting:
Tomorrow, March 9, the Senate [...]  | | 3/9/2010 12:49:16 AM |
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| ARRA – Keeping a Good Thing Going | Yesterday, we released a new report on the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) in California. The report shows that while the ARRA has buffered the impact of the recession on California since it was enacted in February 2009, most of the ARRA’s funding – including assistance to help states [...]  | | 3/5/2010 8:55:47 PM |
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| Protestors Wise to the Governor’s Claims on Education Spending | Why are students, parents, and educators across the state protesting cuts to education when Governor Schwarzenegger claims that his Proposed Budget protects classroom spending? Part of the answer lies in the complex formula used to calculate the Proposition 98 guarantee, the provision in the state’s constitution that guarantees a minimum level of funding for California’s [...]  | | 3/5/2010 12:19:48 AM |
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| This Dead Horse Needs To Be Flogged | Last week we blogged about the deeply flawed report, Cost of State Regulations on California Small Businesses Study, which prominent economists called “schlock science” and “devoid of anything resembling intellectual content.” It turns out that the authors of this report wrote another highly suspect report – Cost of AB 32 on California Small Businesses. An [...]  | | 3/3/2010 6:49:26 PM |
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| The Jobs Program: A Boost for the Economy and Struggling Families | The job market remains tough, but there is some reason to cheer.
As Jean Ross explains in an op-ed today in the Fresno Bee, a federally funded jobs program created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has been quietly creating jobs for low-income families and providing a boost to local economies all over California this [...]  | | 2/26/2010 5:33:47 PM |
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| Settling the Debate: California Spends Less on Each Student – by Any Measure | How does California compare to other states with respect to support for its public schools? Answering that question based on how much the state spends per student has led to a debate. Some rank California near the bottom, while others have placed the state closer to the middle of the pack. The controversy centers on [...]  | | 2/25/2010 12:45:39 AM |
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| Garbage In, Garbage Out | As an organization whose mission is to conduct fact-based analyses with the highest level of intellectual honesty, accuracy, and objectivity, we find it troubling when a deeply flawed analysis is used to inform policy debates. A recent report, Cost of State Regulations on California Small Business Study, is the latest example of pseudo-research we’ve heard [...]  | | 2/23/2010 5:09:55 PM |
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