California Forward
When Fresno County Schools Superintendent Larry Powell quietly decided to take a pay cut that saves government more than $800,000, he didn’t foresee that the idea would be greeted nationwide with accolades and applause.
read moreSacramento business and community leaders have come together to create a comprehensive plan that will help strengthen the economy, create jobs, and educate the workforce.
read moreOn Friday, the California Assembly Rules Committee released current expenditure data. Dakin Sloss of California Common Sense compared the records to available payroll data and found discrepancies.
read moreCalifornia Forward has named Paul Betancourt a Forward Thinker for his work in the agricultural community. For the past 30 years, he’s been a farmer in the Fresno Valley, he’s proud of what he does—in fact, he says it’s easy to advocate and be proud of agriculture.
read moreIt is now up to members of the California Assembly to decide whether two of California Forward’s important fiscal reforms will move forward.
read moreDeveloping hard, quantitative standards of spending efficiency should be a priority for a state in California’s financial position. But efforts toward developing such standards have been placed on indefinite hold in the state’s trial court system.
read moreYou’ve heard the statistics. California spends more on prisons than higher education. About 11% of the state budget – roughly $8 billion – goes to the penal system yet seven in ten offenders return to prison – the highest level in the nation.
read moreThe Assembly Budget Committee this morning sent to the full Assembly two bills that would help stabilize California’s fiscal system: SB 14 and SB 15. They passed with votes of 20-0 and 20-1, respectively.
read moreThe long anticipated results of California’s historic deliberative poll have been released, showing that Californians do believe government can work well, if the system is improved and the state’s leaders and its citizens begin communicating again.
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