2016

经济

When city retirement pays better than the job

One in four El Monte residents lives in poverty. Yet taxpayers pay a steep price to fund bonus pensions and other perks for city workers.

经过 CalMatters Staff • 12 月 30, 2016

气候变化

Carbon cutters on edge: Hoping California’s cap-and-trade program survives

Cap and Trade in Two and a Half Minutes Salmon—made possible by the rivers they run in and the forest canopy above them—are the lifeblood of the Yurok Tribe. The native word for salmon, Ney-puy, means “that which is eaten” and the iconic fish and its habitat sustain California’s largest tribe in ways that are […]

经过 朱莉·卡特 • 12 月 29, 2016

气候变化

So long, 2016: Top California stories set course for 2017

How did California define itself in 2016? As the state girding itself to mastermind the progressive resistance against a looming Trump administration? The state struggling to take the global lead in a daunting quest to halt global climate change? The state saddled with unfunded liabilities to pay off generous public employee pensions, and riddled with […]

经过 CalMatters Staff • 12 月 29, 2016

经济

A Case Study On Pension Reform: San Jose’s Grand Compromise

Cities and states across the country are facing public employee pension debt that is challenging and, in some cases, crippling their budgets. But some municipalities are experimenting with ways to solve that problem.

经过 CalMatters Staff • 12 月 29, 2016

教育

Latino applications skyrocket as record-breaking tally applies to UC campuses

Twenty years ago, if you plucked a random application from a University of California admissions office, it was pretty unlikely that you’d be looking at the transcript and SAT scores of a Latino high school senior. While Latinos accounted for about 40 percent of students in the state’s K-12 system, they made up just 14 […]

经过 马特·莱文 • 12 月 28, 2016

教育

Teen suicide clusters prompt mandate for California schools to confront taboo topic

In California and across the country, suicide is the second leading cause of death among teens—a grim reminder that many high school students’ primary barrier to adulthood is themselves. More young people take their own lives than the number killed by cancer, heart disease, birth defects, stroke, flu, pneumonia and chronic lung disease combined. And […]

经过 Jessica Calefati • 12 月 21, 2016

政治

Gov. Brown forgives more felons in past 6 years than were pardoned in previous 30

“I made the worst mistake of my life.” “I had a drug and alcohol problem.” “I was just a kid with low self esteem and felt hopeless.” Those are the words people convicted of felonies in California wrote to Gov. Jerry Brown in recent years, asking him to pardon their crimes. Their clemency applications describe […]

经过 劳雷尔·罗森霍尔 • 12 月 21, 2016

经济

How state and local government budgets will be affected by CalPERS’ trimmed investment expectations

Pension costs for state and local government will begin to rise in 2017 after CalPERS officials voted to throttle back the expectations on profits earned from its $299 billion portfolio.

经过 CalMatters Staff • 12 月 21, 2016

政治

Symbolic, superstitious or silly—legislators scramble for bill numbers

As the Legislature opened a new two-year session this month, staffers lined up before 9 a.m. to hand freshly-written bills to the clerk, who assigns them an all important number. Whether a bill lives or dies won’t be known for many months, but the work to nab the right bill number starts the minute the […]

经过 劳雷尔·罗森霍尔 • 12 月 14, 2016

正义

Si el gobierno federal trata de identificar a inmigrantes deportables a partir de datos de California, el estado bloqueará el acceso

Desde que Maribel Solache comenzó a enseñar su propia versión de clases de manejo en español hace dos años —que se imparten en todo el Condado de San Diego— éstas han estado llenas. Ella calcula que ha ayudado a cerca de 3000 estudiantes a obtener sus licencias. Pero últimamente, la aprehensión ha sofocado el entusiasmo.”Más […]

经过 伊丽莎白·阿奎莱拉 • 12 月 12, 2016