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Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti Announces Historic Number of Furloughs During State of the City Address

April 20, 2020 3:00 pmApril 20, 2020 3:42 pm

On Sunday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced during the annual State of the City address that due to a budget shortfall caused by the effects of the coronavirus, a sweeping 26 unpaid days off of furloughs for all civilian...

California’s State Budget Reserves Not Enough to Fill Budget Gaps Even in Moderate Downturns

April 20, 2020 11:15 amApril 20, 2020 11:15 am

With California in lockdown since mid-March, most businesses have ground to a halt, which also ground sales tax revenue to a halt. The Public Policy Institute of California just published an article showing that California’s budget reserves aren’t adequate for...

California Needs to Reassess Stay-at-Home Orders to Prevent an Economic Tragedy

April 20, 2020 10:00 amApril 20, 2020 10:12 am

Before the public health and economic disasters wreaked by the COVID-19 pandemic ruins more lives, California policymakers need to carefully assess the costs of a long-term lockdown and make common sense adjustments. About one-sixth of California workers have filed for...

Protestors Gather In Encinitas Demanding the City Reopen Beaches, Parks, and Trails

April 20, 2020 9:52 amApril 20, 2020 9:54 am

Hundreds of people from across San Diego County gathered Sunday in Encinitas along Highway 101 to protest the closure of public spaces due to COVID-19. Local law enforcement was on standby but did not attempt to break up the crowds...

Protest Groups Across California Demand Governor ‘ReopenCalifornia’ and #EndTheLockdown

April 19, 2020 3:32 pmApril 20, 2020 3:00 pm

The ‘false debate’ is not the discussion that considers the enormous human cost of suppressing economic activity – it’s the discussion that pretends there is no such tradeoff. One in six working Californians has applied for unemployment insurance since...

Nearly 16,000 Hotel Rooms Secured For Homeless, Surpassing Goal for ‘Project Roomkey’

April 19, 2020 2:26 amApril 18, 2020 10:32 pm

On Saturday, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that Project Roomkey, the statewide effort to secure hotel rooms to be used by the homeless temporarily to keep COVID-19 coronavirus social distancing standards, had surpassed it’s goal of 15,000 hotel rooms across the...

2020 Q1 Campaign Finance: What 1st Congressional District Candidates Raised And Spent

April 18, 2020 9:12 amApril 18, 2020 8:47 am

Most “landslide” districts tend to have a usual pattern. One strong party member usually dukes it out in the primary and faces either a strong challenger from their own party or faces a member from another party who somehow beat...