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Budget Revenues Already Shaky
If Governor Jerry Brown's first budget is going to survive without even deeper cuts to schools, health care for the poor, and public safety, things are going to have to get a lot better than they were...
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And now, the final debate of the 2011 budget saga: was the $2 billion trigger cut provision a fiscal insurance policy, a risky bet for millions who depend on targeted services, or simply a political...
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Rethinking Budget Trigger Unlikely, Says Speaker
Pool/Hector AmezcuaAssembly Speaker John Perez isn't ruling it out -- never say never, one supposes -- but nonetheless says that talk of the Legislature stopping, or even just rejiggering, the budget's...
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Surprise! The New State Budget
"We are in a box," said Gov. Brown of the state's budget woes. (Photo: KQED/John Myers)The unveiling of a governor's state budget every January is an annual, and well rehearsed, ritual: budget...
View ArticlePodcast: The Early Show
For a budget that most watchers thought wouldn't hold many surprises -- new and deep cuts, premised on taxes -- perhaps the biggest surprise was the timing. A surprise to Governor Jerry Brown, too....
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