Statewide Minimum Wage Increasing in January [Publication Details]

Dec 6, 2016 - A new law passed in 2016 (SB 3 [Leno]) will increase California’s statewide minimum wage over a period of several years. The first increase will occur on January 1, 2017.
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Cal Facts: 2016

Dec 5, 2016 - Cal Facts: 2016 California 's Public Education System Is Extensive 2015-16 State Is Primary Source of Revenue for K-12 Education 2015-16 Slightly more than 60  percent of school funding comes from the state.
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Cal Facts: 2016

Dec 5, 2016 - About one-fifth of the state ’s transportation funding comes from the federal government, supported primarily by federal excise taxes on diesel and gasoline. The remainder of transportation funding comes from a variety of state revenue sources —primarily excise taxes on gasoline and diesel.
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Cal Facts: 2016

Dec 5, 2016 - State Aims to Reduce Reliance on Costly Group Home Foster Care Placements While foster children living in family settings outnumber foster children living in group homes by approximately 9  to  1, total spending (all funds) is split roughly equally between the two groups.
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Cal Facts: 2016

Dec 5, 2016 - Between 1980 and 2015, the state ’s overall crime rate declined by about 60  percent. This decline is similar to trends in crime patterns in the rest of the United States. In 2015, about 3,000 crimes were committed in California per 100,000 residents —a total of about 1.2  million incidents.
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Cal Facts: 2016

Dec 5, 2016 - More than half of state infrastructure spending was for local infrastructure projects (such as local schools and roads) versus state projects (such as prisons and highways). About 60 percent of the state ’s infrastructure spending was financed using bonds.
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Cal Facts: 2016

Dec 5, 2016 - Cal Facts: 2016 Other Programs W ith a state as big, as populous, and as complex as California, it would be impossible to quickly summarize how its economy or state budget works. The purpose of Cal Facts is more modest.
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Cal Facts: 2016

Dec 5, 2016 - These plans include paying down pension unfunded liabilities and making regularly scheduled payments on infrastructure bond debt service. Legislation passed in 2014 aims to fully fund the teacher pension system (CalSTRS).
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Cal Facts: 2016

Dec 5, 2016 - The years 2012 through 2015 are the driest consecutive four-year stretch since the state started keeping records in 1896. This lack of precipitation has caused drought conditions around the state. Drought effects have included fallowed farm fields, groundwater depletion from increased pumping, dry residential wells, degraded habitats for fish and wildlife, and high rates of tree mortality in the state ’s forests.
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Cal Facts: 2016 [Publication Details]

Dec 5, 2016 - Cal Facts: 2016 [Publication Details] HTML Description: With a state as big, as populous, and as complex as California, it would be impossible to quickly summarize how its economy or state budget works.
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