California budget gap at $21 billion…?!
CA Budget Crisis
Twenty-one billion dollars! Yes, twenty-one billion dollars - that's the projected budget deficit through fiscal 2010-2011, according to the Legislative Analyst's Office. After months of patching together a budget that fnally passed the legislature and was signed by the governor, the state faces another round of across-the-board cuts and possibly a repeat of budgetary gridlock in Sacramento.
Guests:
Michael Cohen, deputy legislative analyst in the Legislative Analyst's Office
Dan Weintraub, independent journalist and contributing writer to the Sacramento Bee and the New York Times
- Patt Morrison for November 18, 2009
- California budget gap at $21 billion…?!
- Goldman Sachs mea culpa: Can they be trusted?
- Flying high in a recession, Sir Richard Branson shoots for the moon
- Finding a consensus on the census
- "When Everything Changed: American women from 1960 to the present"
Also on this episode
Events
Comedy Congress Live
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:30 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional. Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.
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