Governor Jerry Brown will release a balanced state budget today that slashes spending by $12.5 billion, including an eight to 10 percent cut in take-home pay for most state employees, and proposes a “vast and historic” restructuring of government operations…
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austere moonbeams: 12.5 billion cuts
?”Among the major cuts proposed by Brown: $1.7 billion to Medi-Cal, $1.5 billion to California’s welfare-to-work program, also known as CalWORKs; $750 million to the Department of Developmental Services; $500 million to the University of California; $500 million to California State University,
and $308 million for a 10 percent reductio…n in take-home pay for state
employees’