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Recent Publications
- Back on Track? The Social and Economic Context of the Governor’s Proposed 2013-14 Budget, February 2013
- Governor Proposes Balanced Budget Highlighted by New Revenues, Investments in Education, and Expanded Health Coverage, January 2013
- What Would Proposition 36 Mean for California?, October 2012
- What Would Proposition 39 Mean for California?, October 2012
- How Do Propositions 30 and 38 Compare?, October 2012
- What Would Proposition 31 Mean for California?, September 2012
- What Would Proposition 30 Mean for California?, September 2012
- What Would Proposition 38 Mean for California?, September 2012
- Waiting for Recovery, September 2012
- Congress Should Maintain States' Flexibility To Expand SNAP Food Assistance, August 2012
- Governor Signs 2012-13 Spending Plan, June 2012
- Finishing the Job: Moving Realignment Toward Completion in 2012, June 2012
- What Makes a Tax System "Fair"?, May 2012
- How Do California Schools Get and Spend Their Money?, May 2012
- Governor Releases May Revision: Tax Collections Down and Deeper Cuts Proposed, Highlighting Need for a Balanced Approach With
Significant Additional Revenues, May 2012
- Proposition 29: Should California Increase the Cigarette Tax?, May 2012
- Who Pays Taxes in California?, April 2012
- California's Public Schools Have Experienced Deep Cuts in Funding Since 2007-08, April 2012
- The Governor's Proposed Budget Would Reduce In-Home Supportive Services for 254,000 Low-Income Seniors and People With Disabilities, April 2012
- Playing With Our Future: Key Facts About California’s Child Care and Development Programs in the Aftermath of the Great Recession, March 2012
- Cuts and Consequences: Key Facts About the CalWORKs Program in the Aftermath of the Great Recession, February 2012
- Measuring Up: The Social and Economic Context of the Governor’s Proposed 2012-13 Budget, February 2012
- Falling Behind: The Impact of the Great Recession and the Budget Crisis on California's Women and Their Families, February 2012
- Leak Results in Early Budget Release: Governor Makes Deep Cuts to the Safety Net and Assumes Voters Approve November Ballot Measure, January 2012
- How Are Federal Dollars Spent in California?, November 2011
- A Generation of Widening Inequality, November 2011
- A Decade of Disinvestment: California Education Spending Nears the Bottom, October 2011
- Should California Extend the Sales Tax to Services?, October 2011
- Steady Climb: State Corrections Spending in California, September 2011
- More Than 6 Million Californians – Over One-Third of Them Children – Lived in Poverty in 2010, September 2011
- On the Edge: California’s Workers Still Face the Toughest Job Market in Decades, September 2011
- Where Do California’s Tax Dollars Go?, July 2011
- President Obama’s Proposed Framework for Medicaid Would Shift Costs to California, July 2011
- Governor Signs 2011-12 Spending Plan, July 2011
- Recent Cuts to the Medi-Cal Program Have Impaired Access to Services, June 2011
- California's Public Schools Have Experienced Deep Cuts in Funding Since 2007-08, June 2011
- California Has Made Deep Cuts to Child Care and Development Programs Since 2009-10, June 2011
- On the Road to Recovery, May 2011
- Governor Releases May Revision: Tax Collections Up,
Less Balance, Backloaded Business Tax Breaks, May 2011
- Recent Cuts Have Contributed to a Decline in Children Insured by the Healthy Families Program, May 2011
- Recent Cuts to CalWORKs Have Significantly Affected Families and Local Communities, May 2011
- Recent Cuts to SSI/SSP Have Significantly Affected Seniors, People With Disabilities, and Local Communities, May 2011
- California's Basic Skills Students: Who Succeeds and Why, May 2011
- Gateway to a Better Future: Creating a Basic Skills System for California, May 2011
- House Budget Plan Would Force Deep Cuts and Make Radical Changes to Key Federal Programs, April 2011
- An "All-Cuts" Budget Would Require Deep Reductions in Funding for California's Public Schools, Impact by county and school district, April 2011
- Narrowing the Gap: Options for Boosting California's Sales Tax Collections From Online Retailers, April 2011
- Rebuilding the Foundation for California's Unemployment Insurance System, April 2011
- Who Pays Taxes in California?, April 2011
- Expanding Opportunities: What the Federal Health Law Means for California, March 2011
- Back to the Future: How Do the Budget Plans Compare?, February 2011
- Key Facts About Child Care and Development Programs in California, February 2011
- California’s Enterprise Zone Program: No Bang for the Buck, February 2011
- Back to the Future: The Social and Economic Context of the Governor's Proposed 2011-12 Budget, February 2011
- Key Facts About the CalWORKs Program, January 2011
- Governor’s Proposed Budget Balances Spending Reductions With Additional
Revenues, Includes Deep Cuts to Health and Human Services Programs, January 2011
- Pepperdine University’s Analysis of California K-12 Expenditures Should Be Used With Caution, December 2010
- Allowing Federally Supported Unemployment Insurance Benefits To Expire Would Cost Jobs and Could Endanger the Fragile Recovery, November 2010
- New Federal Health Law Will Significantly Expand Medi-Cal Eligibility and Enrollment, October 2010
- Searching for Balance: An Analysis of Key Provisions of the 2010-11 Budget Agreement, October 2010
- Proposition 25: Will a "Majority Vote Budget" Help Solve California's Budget Problems?, September 2010
- Proposition 21: Should California Impose a Vehicle Surcharge To Fund the State Park System?, September 2010
- Proposition 26: Should the State and Local Governments Be Required To Meet Higher Voting Thresholds To Raise Revenues?, September 2010
- Proposition 24: Should the State Reverse Recent Business Tax Breaks To Move the Budget Toward Balance?, September 2010
- Proposition 22: Should California Lock In Funding for Local Governments, Redevelopment, and Transportation?, September 2010
- Stuck Between a Recession and a Recovery: California's Workers Face the Toughest Job Market in Decades, September 2010
- Understanding the Tax Swap, August 2010
- No Free Lunch: Tax Cuts Widen Budget Gaps, July 2010
- Race to the Bottom? California’s Support for Schools Lags the Nation, June 2010
- Making Ends Meet: How Much Does It Cost To Raise a Family in California?, June 2010
- Governor Releases May Revision With, As Promised, “Absolutely Terrible Cuts,” No Tax Increases, May 2010
- The Governor's Proposed Cuts to Medi-Cal Would Significantly Affect California's Low-Income Women and Their Families, May 2010
- The Governor's Proposed Cuts to Key Safety-Net Programs Would Disproportionately Affect Low-Income Women and Their Families, May 2010
- How the Other Half Fared: The Impact of the Great Recession on Women, May 2010
- Financing Basic Skills Education in California, April 2010
- The Governor’s Proposed Budget Would Eliminate In-Home Supportive Services for More Than 476,000 Low-Income Seniors and People With Disabilities, Impact by County, Impact by Legislative District, April 2010
- Professors and Prison Guards: An Overview of California's State Workforce, April 2010
- Who Pays Taxes in California?, April 2010
- The Governor's Proposed Budget Could Reduce IHSS Workers' Compensation by Nearly $1.2 Billion, Impact by County, Impact by Legislative District, April 2010
- The Governor's Proposed Budget Would Make Deep Cuts in Funding for California's Public Schools, Impact by County, Impact by School District, Impact by County Office of Education, March 2010
- The Governor's Proposed Budget Would Eliminate CalWORKs Cash Assistance for More Than 1.4 Million Low-Income Children and Parents, Impact by County, Impact by Legislative District, March 2010
- The Governor’s Proposed Cuts to the SSI/SSP Program and CAPI Would Affect Nearly 950,000 Californians, Impact by County, Impact by Legislative District, March 2010
- Governor's Proposed Budget Could Cause More Than 1 Million Children To Lose Health Benefits or Coverage, Impact by County, Impact by Legislative District, March 2010
- What Has the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Meant for California?, March 2010
- What Does the Mid-Year Budget Package Do?, February 2010
- Searching for Balance: The Social and Economic Context of the Governor's Proposed 2010-11 Budget, February 2010
- Proposed Budget Cuts Come at a Time of Growing Need, February 2010
- Governor’s Proposed Budget Includes Deep Cuts, Assumes More Federal Funds, January 2010
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