May 15, 2012 - Back in the early Spring we told you all about an obscure piece of the Governor's January Budget proposal that would have seriously imperiled the availability of Foster Youth Services, which offers absolutely critical services and advocacy in support of foster youths' educational attainment. FYA's response was fantastic - in response to a call from National Center for Youth Law and Children Now over 25 FYA...Read more »
May 14, 2012 - OK. First of all, there's nothing good about a $16 billion budget gap. There are a lot of terrible cuts proposed in the Governor Jerry Brown's May Revision to his proposed 2012-13 state budget - higher ed, developmental services, and Medi-Cal are all proposed to take further cuts, with even more brutal trigger cuts planned if the Governor's proposed tax measure doesn't pass in November. We largely saw all this coming. However.... There...Read more »
July 05, 2011 - Well, the anti-climax to Governor Jerry Brown’s showdown with California’s GOP came in the form of a budget, passed and signed last week, that State Controller John Chiang has deemed sufficiently “balanced” to meet the test set out by last year’s Prop 25. Still, no one up there in the Capitol was pulling out the Champagne and cigars, relieved as they must have been to have their pay and expenses reinstated. There was certainly...Read more »
June 21, 2011 - State politics columnists and bloggers were abuzz with the news last week that Governor Brown vetoed the budget one day after the Legislature passed it, only the second on time budget in twenty years. READ MORERead more »
March 28, 2011 - Friday was an important day in this year's budget cycle. Governor Jerry Brown signed 13 trailer bills that implement $11.2 billion of budget solutions (mostly cuts, and some rearrangements). Though expected, seeing these cuts actually signed means a big snip has been taken to the social safety net. Details are in the full story.Read more »
February 18, 2011 - In a budget hearing on February 17th, the Senate Committee on Budget and Finance rejected Governor Brown's proposed $19 million cut to THP-Plus, proposing instead to cut only $5 million and adding language to the bill that would prevent any beds from being lost. Senator Mark Leno declared the committee's intent to protect...Read more »
July 09, 2010 - There's not any fat in the state's anorexic budget. There's not even enough muscle to adequately animate some of California's most vital moving parts. Some cuts we should be able to live with. Others, not so much. Valuable and worthy programs, including many that would have been regarded as essential under other circumstances, have been visited by the fiscal scalpel. As a state, we're the poorer for it. Read more.....Read more »
April 30, 2010 - FYA & YAP Fight Budget Cuts at the Capitol: By Tyannah Nash On Wednesday, April 28th, FYA staff Tyannah Nash and members of the Alameda County Youth Adult Partnership travelled to the State Capitol in Sacramento to fight budget cuts to Child Welfare Services. We were pleased to join the Coalition to Protect our Children, Protect our Future for this day of advocacy. The day kicked off with a rally on the...Read more »
March 29, 2010 - January 14 Thursday’s Child Forum: Budgeting, the Next Generation: Federal and State Investments in Children after ARRA Listen to a live audio webcast January 14th 6 a.m. Pacific Time Program length: 1.5 hours Register Federal and state budgets are under unprecedented pressure: deficits are ballooning, programs are being cut back, and tax rolls are anemic, or worse. As part of the federal government’s response to the severe recession, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...Read more »
March 29, 2010 - Echoing the sentiment earlier expressed by the SF Chronicle, the LA Times went on the record asking the federal child welfare administration to conform its interpretation of HR 6893, the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008, to legislative intent by allowing current KinGAP cases to be supported by federal matching funds. An update from the John Burton Foundation, who led the effort along with CWDA to gain support from the...Read more »
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