California Economy

California's Long-Term Unemployed Brace For Sudden End Of Benefits

AP | TRACIE CONE | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Video, Unemployment, Long Term Unemployment, Jobless Benefits, Unemployment Benefits, California Economy, California Joblessness, Jobless Claims, California Unemployment, Business News

MERCED, Calif. -- With her anti-poverty budget stretched beyond its limits, Brenda Callahan-Johnson is braced for next Saturday: the day California's ...

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Why Are Gov. Brown and Sacramento Democrats Trying So Hard to Raise Taxes on the 99%?

Mike Lux | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: 99 Percent, California, Jerry Brown, California Sales Tax, Jerry Brown Sales Tax, Sacramento Democrats, California Economy, Jerry-Brown-Tax-Increase, Politics News

Brown is trying to impose an unwritten rule in California of late: No one criticizes or even pressures the governor. To hell with that. Progressives have a duty to take on the Democratic establishment when they are doing the wrong thing on policy.

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'California On The Mend': Jerry Brown Delivers State Of The State Address

Carly Schwartz | Posted 03.19.2012

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California Governor Jerry Brown expressed hope during his 2012 State of the State speech in Sacramento Wednesday. "Putting it as simply as I can, C...

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Movin' On Down: California No Longer World's Eighth Largest Economy

AP | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy, California Economy, California Eighth Largest Economy, California Brazil, California Ninth Largest Economy, San Francisco News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The recession has taken a measurable toll on California, which has slipped behind Brazil to become the ninth-largest economy in ...

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The Failed American Dream

Kim Carter | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Southern California, Poverty, San Bernardino, La Impact, San Bernardino Poverty, California Economy, California Poverty, All-America City Awards, Los Angeles News

At one point in its history, San Bernardino was named an "All-America" city. Business was booming. Today it is the rated the second in the nation for poverty, right after Detroit. Whatever happened?

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Public Safety, Innocence and Cost: Replacing the Death Penalty is California's Only Viable Option

Byron Williams | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: California Executions, Life Without Parole, California Economy, Death Penalty, California, Politics News

If any good has come out of California's current economic challenges, it has been that pragmatism may have overtaken emotionalism in our public discourse.

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Stanford grads' agenda: 1) fix economy, 2) find job

Dakin Sloss | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Elections 2012, California, Offthebus, California Economy, Stanford University, Government Transparency, Silicon Valley, College News

Knowledge is power. In the modern era, power has always been monopolized by special interests. So what do they know that we don't? To give power back to Californians, we sought to open government records and, with more data, show how it could work better.

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Hardest-Hit Groups Among CA's Unemployed

| Joanna Lin | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: Latino Unemployment, California Recession, California 99ers, Black Unemployment, California Economy, California Unemployment Rate, California Jobless, Youth Unemployment, Los Angeles News

This story comes courtesy of California Watch. California's unemployment rate remains the second-highest in the nation - 12 percent in July - but ...

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California's Budget Cuts: Where They Hurt The Most

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: California Budget, California Economy, Medi-Cal, California Budget Cuts, California Education Budget Cuts, San Francisco News

Higher tuition, fewer firefighters, shuttered state parks: the $14.6 billion in spending cuts in late June's "austerity budget" may be incomprehensibl...

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$2 Billion in Foreclosure Help Is Here -- But Does Anyone Know?

Preeti Vissa | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Foreclosure, Keep Your Home California, San Francisco, Housing Crisis, California Economy, Housing, San Francisco News

I understand that Keep Your Home California is reluctant to spend money on ads that could be used to help struggling homeowners, but $2 billion in foreclosure relief will accomplish nothing if the folks who need it don't know it's there.

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More Bad News For California's Economy

Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: California Economy, California Unemployment Rate, California Unemployment, California Job Lost, California Jobs, Video, Los Angeles News

California was hit with a dose of bad news on the jobs front this morning. The state's employers shed 29,200 jobs in May even as the state's unempl...

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Job Killer: California's Social Networking Bill

Loren Kaye | Posted 08.02.2011

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What California companies will we be talking about in five years? Probably the ones that started here but felt overtaxed, overregulated and unappreciated, and took their act on the road.

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Report: California's Economy 'More Diverse And Resilient' Than That Of Greece

AP | By JUDY LIN | Posted 07.03.2011

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California and Greece might share enviable weather and postcard-worthy beaches, but their fiscal problems aren't the same. That...

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Report: California Added 200,000 Net Jobs Last Year

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Economy, California Job Cuts, California Jobs, Labor Department, Los Angeles News

WASHINGTON — U.S. companies have added jobs for 12 straight months, giving some of the hardest hit states a lift. But the gains have been uneven...

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Inside California's $25 Billion Budget Crisis

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Tax Battle, California School District, California Economy, California State Budget, Jerry Brown, Budget Cuts, Electric Cars, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES (By Nichola Groom) - Erich Kwek's new office is awash in sunlight and impeccably ordered, with enough space for a desk, small sitting are...

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Elvis Costello's New Economy vs. Big Oil's Old One

Clint Wilder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brightsource, Tesla Motors, Green Jobs, Proposition 23, Vantage Point, California Economy, Clean Energy, Clean Technology, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Venture Capital, Elvis Costello, Greenhouse Gases, Green News

Prop. 23's principal backers, Texas-based oil companies Tesoro and Valero, claim that AB 32 is bad for business and job creation in California. Here's the question: bad for whose business?

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The Economists Rate Meg Whitman

Araceli Ruano | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Economy, Meg Whitman, Proposition 23, A.B. 32, Meg Whitman Governor, Los Angeles News

Meg Whitman's economic plan for California will dig our state into an an even deeper hole, not help us get out. It's long on political rhetoric and short on sound economics.

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California State Of Emergency Declared By Schwarzenegger Over $19 Billion Budget Gap

Reuters | Jim Christie | Posted 05.25.2011

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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency over the state's finances on Wednesday, raising pressure on lawmakers to negot...

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On Prop 13 -- Time to Amend and Correct

David C. Bohnett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Economy, California Budget, California Budget Crisis, Proposition 13, Prop 13, Los Angeles News

Proposition 13 has been an unmitigated disaster for California. A serious dialogue about amending this out-of-date roadblock to restoring the state's fiscal health is long overdue.

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Californians in Crisis: Nothing Left to Sacrifice

Irasema Garza | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Welfare, California Budget, Unemployment, Calworks, Poverty, California Economy, Tanf, California Poverty, California Budget Crisis, Los Angeles News

For years the poorest people in California, turned to the state's CalWORKs program to make ends meet. But in order to reduce the billion deficit, Schwarzenegger has proposed a range of cuts.

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Passage of Health Care Reform a Good Thing for California!

Charles Feldman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Anthem Blue Cross, President Obama's Health Reform, California Economy, California, California Budget Crisis, Health Care, Hrc, Los Angeles News

Make no mistake about it, Californians stand to gain a lot -- maybe more than many other part of the U.S. -- by passage of the health care reform measure.

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Schwarzenegger on Small Business

Marty Keller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Small Business, California, California Economy, Sba, Caltrans, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Budget Crisis, Oed, Goed, Los Angeles News

Small businesses make up 98% of the state's businesses and employ over half of California's workforce, and that's exactly why the governor has worked so hard to create a climate where they can succeed.

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Our Jobs, Our Lives

Jorge-Mario Cabrera | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Immigration Reform, Jobs Bill, Jobs, Immigrants, Los Angeles, Chirla, California Economy, Los Angeles Economy, Cynthia Buiza, Los Angeles News

There is a dark undercurrent to the jobs package, as anti-immigrant Republicans once again attempt to turn debate on this economic recovery bill into a referendum on immigrant workers.

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Democrats' Obama Bounce In California Disappearing

AP | SAMANTHA YOUNG and KEVIN FREKING | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California, California Politics, California Economy, California Democratic Party, Los Angeles News

CERES, Calif. — Kent Hancock can't remember tougher economic times in the two decades he's sold used cars in California's Central Valley. He br...

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Governor's Plan Would Exempt Developers From Environmental Challenges

The Desert Sun | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Enviromental Regulation, California Environmental Quality Act Litigation Protection Pilot Program, California Economy, California Environmental Protection, California Developers, Los Angeles News

A pilot program introduced Wednesday in Sacramento to fast-track select construction projects by exempting them from environment-related legal challen...

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