CBP report shows weak jobs growth during recovery

In a new report, “Uneven Progress: What Economic Recovery Has Meant for California’s Workers,” the California Budget Project analyzed how the economic crash and recovery have affected the labor market in California. essay writing services Spoiler alert: It’s not good.

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Report: CalVet 'must do better' to help veterans

Many California military veterans are hurting. blackberry spy software In its recently released report, “An Agenda for Veterans: The State’s Turn to Serve,” the bi-partisan Little Hoover Commission critiques the California Department of Veterans Affairs for its “inconsistent leadership” and

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Enviro policies spike CA electricity prices 70 percent

Californians are starting to pay for the cost of the state's Draconian environmental laws. Wholesale electricity market prices spiked about 70 percent over last year.  So reports the Independent System Operator that manages California’s electric transmission and distribution line grids.  The reasons given

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Steinberg rushing arena bill through last days of session

Strange bedfellows are camping out under the bleachers to oppose an arena in Sacramento for the Kings pro basketball team. They're united in opposition because of the lack of public debate, the dubious numbers put out by the city and

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Siskiyou County Declaration of Independence

  Hooray for Siskiyou County, whose Board of Supervisors just voted for the county to secede from California! They’re tired of the state regime’s record high taxes and incredible regulations; and the neglect of their needs and wishes. To help

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Sea of grimy mattresses evidence of need for recycling bill

A sea of used mattresses was on display at a press conference on the steps of the Capitol Wednesday. The stained, lumpy mattresses were a grimy but convincing prop for a bill which would create a recovery and recycling program for used

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Unreal: CA transit workers permanently protected from pension reductions

Californians are used to suffering the consequences from state laws drafted by unions and forced through by their allies/puppets in the state Legislature. But now we see the same phenomenon afflicting the Golden State thanks to a union payoff made

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Californians fleeing to Nevada

Taxes have consequences. That’s something tax increasers don’t understand. Remember how Gov. Jerry Brown and others campaigned last year for Prop. 30, saying millionaires had to “pay their fair share” (even though “millionaire” was defined, in California math, as someone

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America becomes Stalag 13

I was watching the classic TV sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes,” about a group of American and other allied prisoners stuck in a German prisoner of war camp, Stalag 13, during World War II. The most evil of the Nazis is Gestapo

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Cadiz blending pipeline cuts salt in water

California farmers harvest more than 1.7 billion strawberries every year. Reducing the salt content in irrigation water is critical to growing strawberries without “salt blight.” “Salt blight” symptoms include “leaf scorch” at the edge of leaves, stunted plant growth, dead

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