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To help people with mental illness, keep them in school

Early diagnosis and intervention is essential to attaining better outcomes for mental illness. But in the struggle to help people with mental illness cope, a powerful long term tool has been overlooked: school. Education has an outsized impact on the prospects for people with serious mental disorders.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 4월 17, 2019

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How budget ‘trailer bills’ are misused

Senate Bill 861 is a prime example of how budget "trailer bills" are misused to bypass the usual legislative process.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 4월 17, 2019

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Paying women less than men for substantially similar work is wage theft

In California, paying women less is a form of wage theft. The law also prohibits paying someone less for substantially similar work on the basis of race or ethnicity. What makes California’s pay equity law particularly significant is that it does not require proof of discrimination or intent.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 4월 16, 2019

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Politics won over good policy, and now Californians face even more taxes

Raising property taxes on businesses means they will pass on the costs to every Californian by increasing prices on just about everything we buy and use, from diapers and day care to gasoline and groceries. That’s the last thing hardworking families need.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 4월 15, 2019

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Why April 15 isn’t California’s most important tax day

Death and taxes are all but certain. But the bright side is that the power to tax ultimately lies with the people, as Californians have the constitutional right to vote on local taxes, and the right to elect state officials with taxing power.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 4월 15, 2019

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DMV crisis could make or break Newsom

While Gov. Gavin Newsom claims a global role in the immigration crisis, how he handles a more prosaic crisis in the Department of Motor Vehicles could have a greater effect on his political career.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 4월 15, 2019

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Mental illness implications of cannabis use must not be ignored

Backers of cannabis legalization–and their supporters in the media–have successfully cast marijuana legalization as a racial and social justice issue, although almost no one is in prison for cannabis possession. And they have vastly oversold the potential medical benefits of the drug, while understating its risks.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 4월 14, 2019

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Bond issue transparency still under assault

Local officials still don't like having to tell voters how proposed bond issues will affect their property taxes and may seek relief from the Legislature.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 4월 14, 2019

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Weekly Walters 04/12/2019

A collection of commentaries by Dan Walters over the past week.

에 의해 댄 월터스 • 4월 12, 2019

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Why Cal Grant must be expanded: Hard realities of juggling community college, work and family

Here's why Cal Grant program must be expanded: I am a father to two daughters, and, like many other community college students, I juggle work, school and family responsibilities every day. I also happen to be one of the 84 percent of black students who did not receive a Cal Grant award to support my education due to California’s inadequate financial aid system.

에 의해 게스트 코멘터리 • 4월 12, 2019