The Affordable Care Act (ACA) will be in the spotlight next week as the U.S. Supreme Court hears legal arguments on a variety of fronts. The Court will listen to challenges to the ACA for six hours over three days, March 26-28. It has been nearly 60 years since the high court spent that much [...]
Today, the Women’s Foundation of California and the California Budget Project released a joint paper, Falling Behind: The Impact of the Great Recession and the Budget Crisis on California’s Women and Their Families. Major takeaways from the report include: Single mothers were hardest hit by the recession and recent budget cuts contributed to sharp increases [...]
There has been a lot of media attention this week focused on Penn State – its administration and its football program. Who knew what, and who told whom, and when. Of course, lots of whys. Perhaps instead of football coaches, the story that deserves to be discussed – in fact, must be discussed – is [...]
This week the federal government released a new “Supplemental Poverty Measure.” It doesn’t replace the current calculation, but it “provides us a different angle on who is in economic need,” according to Rebecca Blank, U.S. Commerce Department undersecretary for economic affairs. The official poverty measure – developed nearly 50 years ago – took one analyst’s [...]
The CSAC Executive Committee met yesterday and engaged in lengthy discussion about the 2011 realignment. The Committee focused its discussion on the opportunity, path, and timing to secure a constitutional amendment to afford counties protections. In addition, the group discussed the fiscal structure for 2012-13 and beyond. Please recall that when the Legislature passed and [...]