Assemblymember David Chiu, a San Francisco Democrat :“I’m not sure how EDD can imagine that people can just go without income for months at a time.”
$15 billion for K-12 school reopenings, in addition to $5 billion for colleges and universities. Billions for vaccine distribution and coronavirus testing and tracing. $4.6 billion for California’s transit systems, plus $898 million for airports. $3.8 billion to stabilize California’s child care sector and expand the child care tax credit, lifting an estimated 533,000 children out of poverty. (The tax credit is essentially a one-year guaranteed income for most families with children.) $2.2 billion in emergency rental assistance. $1.2 billion in homeowner assistance. $590 million in homelessness assistance funding. An extra $117 million monthly through Sept. 30 for CalFresh, the state’s food stamps program. A nearly 300% increase in the state’s maximum Earned Income Tax Credit for 1.85 million workers without children.
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San Jose City Councilwoman Magdalena Carrasco :“It’s like, what the heck, man? Allow us to make the decisions about where the essential workers are and send it where it’s needed. Don’t handcuff us, don’t pigeonhole us, don’t decide for us.”
Cecily Myart-Cruz, president of United Teachers Los Angeles :“No one wants to open only to have to close again, which is a realistic possibility if safety measures are not put into place first.”
Ken Miller, a Claremont McKenna political science professor :“If the outcome is that Newsom ends up with 49% opposing a recall — so thus supporting him — and whoever wins in question two gets, say, 35%, then Newsom, in theory, had more support.” That’s “a little tricky from a democratic theory perspective.”
