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California has a huge budget problem that could force thorny decisions from Democratic leaders who enjoyed a more than $100 billion surplus just three years ago. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom on ...
California faced a $26.3 billion budget deficit for the 2009–2010 budget year. [7] While the legislative bodies appeared to address the problem in 2008 with the three-month delayed passage of a budget they in fact only postponed the deficit to 2009 and due to the Great Recession and the 2007–2008 financial crisis the problem became urgent ...
Newsom boasted of a $97.5 billion budget surplus in 2022, but a year later, it morphed into a $31-plus billion deficit. What happened? California’s budget whiplash showed the pitfalls of ...
Newsom's plan seeks to solve the budget deficit for the next two budget years, including additional cuts, reductions and delays to solve an estimated $28.4-billion deficit in 2025-26.
News reports and commentators have cited the state's various legislative supermajority requirements as a contributing factor to the state budget crisis. [23] [24] The state has a long history of supermajority requirements with a 1933 state ballot measure mandating a two-thirds supermajority to pass the state budget and California Proposition 13 (1978) mandating another two-thirds supermajority ...
An LAO analysis of the governor’s budget said the administration had actually filled a potential gap of $58 billion, meaning the two estimates were about $10 billion apart. Then, on Tuesday, the ...
In the table, the fiscal years column lists all of the fiscal years the budget covers and the budget and budget per capita columns show the total for all those years. Note that a fiscal year is named for the calendar year in which it ends, so "2022-23" means two fiscal years: the one ending in calendar year 2022 and the one ending in calendar ...
California's massive budget deficit, ... (The wage replacement rate is about 50% for minimum-wage workers in California.) From surplus to deficit .