California Forward
Stanford grad companies would be 10th largest economy in world if combined
read moreThe Associated Press, this week, reported exclusively that it had analyzed every vote cast during the 2012 session and discovered California Assembly members changed and added their votes to legislation more than 5,000 times.
read moreA government at your fingertips. That’s what leaders in the city and county of San Francisco hope with new legislation to strengthen the city by the bay’s landmark Open Data initiatives.
read moreBusiness best practices and big data can help re-tool education
read moreOver 1 million Californians filed voter applications online this fall and over 380,000 of them have already been qualified. All told nearly 700,000 Californians registered to vote in the 45 days leading up to the October 22nd deadline.
read moreEconomic impact estimated to be in $100 to 500 million range
read more“The hard truth is, despite what you hear from many people on both sides of the argument, we just don’t know yet,” Sharon Aungst, director of California Forward’s Partnership for Community Excellence told the Association for Criminal Justice Research in California.
read moreWhat does a drop in California unemployment but few jobs created mean?
read moreAs recently as a decade ago, the sprawling redwood north of California, a region the size of Connecticut and New Jersey combined, had no broadband access, difficult transportation challenges across hundreds of miles of mountains, and a generation of workers who found themselves tempted to tell their children to move elsewhere to find good jobs.
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