Govern For California
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Budget, Calls to Action: Legislators, Collective Bargaining For Public Employees
Gavin Newsom’s Extravagant Spending On Employees
Governor Newsom’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year includes $45 billion of spending on salaries and benefits for 255,000 state employees, which translates into $177,000 per employee. Questions legislators should be asking include the following…
David Crane
Updates
Questions For Gubernatorial Candidates
If you have the opportunity to speak with a candidate for governor, please consider asking the following two questions.
David Crane
Pension Spending
Stock Markets Don’t Cause Pension Problems
Earlier this week, a journalist asked me how a stock market decline this year would affect pension spending by California’s cities, schools and the state. He wondered if it “would produce a big or small hit.” The answer is that any decline this year would produce neither.
David Crane
