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Newsom's Budget is Bloated, Ineffective
Orange County Register | January 7, 2025 | Wayne Winegarden

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday unveiled the initial details of his $322.2 billion state budget proposal for the 2025-26 fiscal year. Based on his presentation, Californians should be worried.

He claims that his budget will promote an “efficient and leaner” government, yet his plan is neither. The Newsom budget would increase spending by around 8% year over year. When you consider inflation is now running at an annual rate of 2.5 to 3.0%, this is a huge inflation-adjusted spending increase. Spending significantly more money does not promote a leaner state government.
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Fast Food Minimum Wage Hurts Businesses And Workers Alike
Right by the Bay | Matt Fleming | January 1, 2025

In August 2024, Gov. Gavin Newsom took an erroneous victory lap celebrating his policy to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers...

A month or so after that, academics from UC Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) who studied the issue made similar claims...

Both turned out to be wrong.
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Five Things To Watch As Lawmakers Return To Work
Right by the Bay | Tim Anaya | January 6, 2025

Fresh off a decisive re-election victory, President-elect Donald Trump is dominating U.S. politics.

Surprisingly, he is also dominating California politics despite the fact that he is broadly unpopular in the state – though much less so than his first term as evidenced by his gaining nearly 5 percentage points in 2024 compared with his 2020 total and his flipping several blue counties in the state to red.
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