By Lenny Goldberg, California Tax Reform Association, and Roy Ulrich, Goldman School of Public Policy at U.C. Berkeley
Jerry Brown’s most recent budget proposal takes a meat ax to vital programs, including Medi-Cal and in home support services (IHHS)…
By Robert Ovetz, Ph.D.
Across the state public schools are threatened with a “death by a thousand cuts” of budget cuts, rising class sizes, standardized tests, and teacher lay-offs that set our children up for failure. Waiting in the wings is the c…
By (announcement) the Harvard Business School Research published yesterday in Science sheds light on a hot-button political issue: the role and effectiveness of government regulation. Does it kill jobs or protect the public?
The new study, co-aut…
Redistricting every ten years can cause plenty of headaches. It can pit two incumbents against each other like in House District 50 with Annette Sweeney and Pat Grassley, or it can entice a challenger to emerge to an incumbent who didn’t live in the new district, which was the case in Senate District 22 with [...]
By Senator Mark Leno
With most of the attention focused on the rising level of CEO pay while executives are actively working, an even more important aspect of executive compensation has been overlooked. What a top corporate executive makes when he or …