By Dan Aiello California Progress Report Amidst the public budget hearings and closed door sessions last week the California Health Policy Forum highlighted the Department of Health and Human Services continuing work on the plan to end California’s epidemic obesity. Key among the presented issues: How to fund future efforts…
by Natasha Minsker ACLU of Northern California Last week, Californians had their first opportunity to speak out about the state’s execution procedures at an official state hearing. Thousands made their voices heard and their message was clear: it is time for California to replace its costly and broken death penalty…
by Ana Acton Executive Director FREED Center for Independent Living June 22, 2009, marked the 10th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Courts landmark Olmstead decision. In its 1999 ruling, the high court affirmed the right of individuals with disabilities to live in their community of choice, and rejected the state…
A few days ago, the White House sent Congress a bill to create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA). Everyone who favors consumer protection should support this bill. Georgetown University Law School Professor Adam Levitin argued the case for the creation of the CFPA in the “Credit Slips” blog that covers credit and bankruptcy. He states we need the CFPA because the current regulatory structure doesn’t work and it will almost inevitably cause future crises, if not of the scale of the current one, then still too serious to countenance.
Prof Levitin points out that the economic disaster of 2008 is the chief exhibit in showing that the current system doesn’t work. There were many factors behind the economic disaster, but bad consumer credit products were an important factor. A major lesson from this crisis is that consumer debt can affect global economic stability (no surprise as consumer spending is something like 70% of GDP).
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By Cynthia Craft Health Access California As July 1st hits, a budget fix for California is apparently nowhere in sight. So how is this year different from years past? Besides the alarming $24 billion hole in Californias budget, we seem to have a different Governor. As recently as 2007-08, Gov….
By Assemblymember Noreen Evans (D-Santa Rosa), Chair of the Budget Conference Committee (Originally posted on Evans’ budget blog at http://californiabudget.blogspot.com/) Today, the governor held a press conference that reminded me of the phrase “everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts.” As was expected, the governor…
In the wake of the Governor’s failure to sign a budget that would make the state solvent in terms of cash flow, the Governor has made a number of proposals to find money. One of these proposals is to suspend Proposition 98, the minimum funding law designed to provide funding…
By Dan Aiello California Progress Report A protest by approximately 250 Medi-Cal enrollees and healthcare providers Tuesday, one of four demonstrations to besiege the state capitol steps, marked the death knell for the first eight Medi-Cal services slated for elimination, even as legislators struggle to reconcile new budget woes….
By Peter Schrag Columnist California Progress Report At a time when its unfairness and incomprehensibility scream for change, the specifics of California’s convoluted and irrational property tax system hardly need more elaboration. For the same reason even a modest attempt to address one element of its chronic unfairness – and…
By Willie L. Pelote, Sr. Assistant Director ASFCME With California just a few days away from having to issue IOUs to pay its bills, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is threatening to shut down the state rather than agree to $2 billion worth of new taxes on cigarettes and alcohol and…
By Dan Aiello California Progress Report “We are putting forward $11 billion dollars worth of cuts on top of the $16 billion we put forward in February - $36 billion in total since September of 2008 - and if they are going to stand on the argument that the cuts…
by David M. Greenwald Editor California Progress Report What should have been a routine correspondence between the respective chairs of the Senate and Assembly Budget Committees Senator Denise Ducheny and Assemblymember Noreen Evans and Finance Director Mike Genest, turned into another embarrassing fiasco for the Schwarzenegger administration on Monday. Mr….
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