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FCL EDUCATION FUND - NEWS AND ANALYSIS
CURRENT ISSUES IN CALIFORNIA
NEW: Clocks tick on progressives' tax push
How California Fails to Prevent False Convictions
JUST IN: CA Senate and Assembly release their version of the 2025-26 state budget
GOV. NEWSOM'S PROPOSED 25-26 STATE BUDGET
California faces an additional $12 billion deficit; cuts proposed
Reactions:
- The California Budget and Policy Center
- Environmental Justice Groups Respond
- Health Access Responds to Governor's proposed cuts
- End Child Poverty California: Governor's Proposal fails to protect progress; put families first
- From Justice in Aging: Revised Budget includes serious, significant and draconian cuts to older adults' access to health and long term care
- Health and Immigrant Rights Organizations say NO to proposed cuts
- Housing and Homelessness Coalition: Alarming Lack of Funding
- California Association of Food Banks
From the CA Budget and Policy Center-
First Look: Understanding the Governor's 2025-26 May Revision
Newsom moves to close another state prison
THE CRISIS IN FEDERAL FUNDING
Justice in Aging responds to proposed Medicaid Budget Reconciliation
How Republican-Led Budget Cuts Could Impact Californians in Every Congresssional District
Read the letter from The Children's Budget Coalition to Members of Congress
States bear the brunt of House GOP Medicaid plan
The Quadruple Threat to Children: A Budget that Picks on Our Nation's Youngest
California borrows $3.4 billion for Medi-Cal overrun as Congress eyes steep cuts
CALIFORNIA AND THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY
Food Research and Action Center - Information on federal threats to food stamps and school lunches
NEW! How Federal Budget Cuts could affect California - County by County
Federal Reconciliation: What's at risk for Medi-Cal and Covered CA
Federal Impacts: What's at Risk for CA's Statewide Safety Net (Data by Congressional District)
FACT SHEET: Federal cuts to Medicaid will harm older adults on Medi-Cal
FACT SHEET: Medicaid and People with Disabilities
Know Your Rights: Resources for Immigrants
California at Risk: Proposed Federal Funding Cuts Jeopardize Key Services
Quakers Sue DHS over Immigration Enforcement and Religious Freedom
Tracking California's lawsuits against the new Trump Administration
Federal Funds Drive One-Third of California's State Budget
Top Democrats say they won't just Trump Proof California - they'll make it affordable again
Trump Deportations could cost California hundreds of billions of dollars.
California Governor calls Special Session to Protect Liberal Policies from Trump Presidency
California to offer EV rebates if Trump kills $7,500 tax credit, Newsom says
A Guide to Gavin Newsom's "Trump-Proofing" Efforts - POLITICO
IMPORTANT READING
They drove for hours to speak in the Capitol; lawmakers cut them off
California Legislature's unwritten rule: negotiate in secret with lobbyists, not in public
Special interests poured more than half a billion into California lobbying last year
The secrets of the Legislature's "suspense" file -California lawmakers quietly sideline bills in secretive suspense process
State Senate Hearing on Homelessness - March 13, 2025
Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026 Introduced in Legislature
Gov. Newsom declares state of emergency ahead of wildfire season: suspends CEQA and Coastal Act. And more analysis here.
The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes - new study finds no state has enough housing for low-income renters
New report says recent laws have had limited or no impact on state's housing supply
Legislature considers bill that bans evictions when tenants are willing and able to pay up
Rethinking California fire policy
Fire Survivors, Insurers Could Sue Big Oil for Climate Disasters under California Bill
Yolo County's Restorative Justice Program
New homelessness data: How does California compare
NEW VIDEO: The Death Penalty is Dying
Protecting Progress: State housing and homelessness funding must continue
Two California prosecutors promised a different kind of justice. Voters turned on them.
CalMatters - Nonprofit and Nonpartisan News
California Budget and Policy Center
Public Policy Institute of California
California Women's Well-Being Index
Revitalizing Unemployment Insurance in California
PPIC Report: Crime after Proposition 47 and the Pandemic
Report on California Climate Commitment
Digital Democracy Database from CalMatters
How are our kids doing? Read the 2024 California Children's Report Card
How much is a living wage in California?
Housing and Homelessness
California pledged $500 million to help tenants preserve affordable housing. They didn't get a dime.
Who is experiencing homelessness in California?
California homelessness: Where's the money going?
California’s Housing and Homelessness Challenges in Context - from the Legislative Analyst's Office
Review of Housing and Homelessness Programs in California - from the Senate Budget Committee
Study confirms serious health problems,high trauma rates among unsheltered people in U.S.
CA Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation/Prison Closures
Legislature and Gov. Newsom struggle for consensus on solitary confinement reform
CalMatters: How many prisons does California need?
Press Release from Gov. Newsom on transformation of San Quentin
LAO Report says governor could save $1 billion by closing five California prison
