Proposition 4 asks California voters to allow the state to borrow $10 billion in bonds for water, wildfire prevention, and ...

Newsom, 56, expressed concern over the budgetary impact the expansion of the program would have in his veto announcement.

The state’s overall poverty rate soared to 18.9% in 2023, according to research released this week by the California Budget & Policy Center. That’s up from 16.4% in 2022, but more significantly, it’s ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has already declared a budget emergency due to the state’s spending outpacing revenue. California also faces a $56 billion deficit, and the addition of Prop. 4’s bond debt would only ...

A year ago, thousands of workers went on strike across California, and what became known as "hot labor summer" was reflected ...

California’s public schools have a numbers problem —and it’s not just that their students don’t score very highly in national tests of mathematics ability.

The California governor killed a bill that would grant illegal immigrants access to one of the state's homebuying assistance ...

It's not the first time California has reportedly had the nation's highest poverty rate and likely won't be the last.

Proposition 35 asks California voters to make permanent a tax on health insurance providers, also known as managed care ...

California Democrats’ reparations saga has crashed and burned in its first attempt to get off the ground because it turns out that an unworkable idea being handled by the most incompetent state ...

Federal budget deficits are huge, and there is no appetite for deep cuts in spending. To keep the national debt from ...