Steve Harmon

Contra Costa Times

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Jerry Brown today signed  $14 billion in budget cuts , including $5.8 billion in social services and support for the developmentally disabled and the mentally ill.

Brown Signs Budgets Cuts, Faces Resistance on Tax Measure

Jerry Brown today signed $14 billion in budget cuts , including $5.8 billion in social services and support for the developmentally disabled and the mentally ill.

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Half of all adult Californians are worried that they or somebody in the family will lose their job next year.

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Half of all adult Californians are worried that they or somebody in the family will lose their job next year.

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Governor Schwarzenegger and the Legislature are in the midst of re-writing the social contract, cutting education and services to poor children, the elderly, the blind and disabled.

How Did California Become Such a Dysfunctional State?

Governor Schwarzenegger and the Legislature are in the midst of re-writing the social contract, cutting education and services to poor children, the elderly, the blind and disabled.

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