It feels like deja vu — once again the Governor has proposed a revised budget that focuses on cutting social programs aimed mainly at the poor. Included is a proposal to end CalWORKS, a welfare-to-work program, that would make California the only state in the nation without such a program. The budget proposal includes no new taxes, repeating the strategy seen during the last attempt to balance the seriously out-of-whack budget only by cutting.

Details on the proposal from the Los Angeles Times

Details from The California Budget Project

Powerpoint presentation from The California Budget Project
“Proposed Budget Cuts Come at Time of Growing Need”

California would be only state without welfare-to-work program
The Sacramento Bee, May 15, 2010

Schwarzenegger to Democrats: Time to make ‘Sophie’s Choice’ between pensions and poor
San Jose Mercury News, May 18, 2010