Video: Educated Latinos vital for California’s future
California faces an estimated shortage of one million college educated workers by the year 2025. Read More
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Panetta joins California Economic Summit
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has signed on to serve as Honorary Co-Chair of the California Economic Summit, scheduled for November 7-8 in Los Angeles. Read More
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California Economy gets big boost after Governor’s trip to China
First and most importantly, for the first time in 10 years, California opened--or re-opened--the California-China Trade and Investment office in Shanghai Read More
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Monterey Park latest cash-strapped California city to consolidate services
To say finances for local governments in California are challenging, is a drastic understatement. Read More
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Stockton becomes most populous US city in history to declare bankruptcy
A U.S. Bankruptcy judge has given the green light for the city of Stockton to enter into bankruptcy protection, making it the most populous city in the nation to do so. Read More
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What does immigration reform mean to California agriculture?
It’s common knowledge that the majority of farm laborers in the United States are undocumented immigrants. Less commonly known is the fact that migrant labor has been on a steady decline. Read More
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Streamlining California’s approach to clean drinking water
Currently, some 250,000 Californians in the San Joaquin and Salinas Valleys have nitrate contamination issues, according to a study released by UC Davis last spring. Compounding the problem, these communities are some of the poorest in our state. Read More
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Video: One on One with California community college chancellor Brice Harris
We had the opportunity to sit down with California Community Colleges Chancellor Brice Harris. With just three months under his belt, the Chancellor explains why he believes better days are on the horizon. Read More
Dairy Cliff narrowly averted for California milk industry
The fiscal cliff wasn’t the only cliff that threatened the nation’s economic balance to start the year. Elected officials in Washington were also grappling with how to keep the nation from going headfirst off the dairy cliff. Read More
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The San Joaquin Valley’s response to the Governor’s budget
In effect, the sentiment can be surmised as one of pleasant surprise, somewhere along the lines of "wow, I’m sure glad I didn’t place a bet on that one." Read More
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Plan Monrovia: How one California city is making a lean budget work
As cities are being challenged to do more with less, city officials and residents share the same goal: ensuring that limited resources are being spent wisely. In Monrovia, they are working in tandem to do just that. Read More
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Will 2013 be the year California tackles its water problems?
As we look forward to 2013, expect that the state's water infrastructure again comes up for major discussion. Governor Brown, who has called water one of California's four chronic issues, has promised to address the issue. Read More
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How will CEQA changes modernize the California economy?
As we approach year's end, the news about the California economy is less gloomy than it was a year ago. A look at some recent reporting shows a mixed bag, but with the trends in the right direction. Read More
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Turning California farmers into farm owners
The Golden State continues to produce the largest number of agriculture exports in the nation, accounting for nearly 12 percent of the US total. Read More
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Amazon making good on boosting California economy
First there was the City of San Bernardino. Then there was Patterson. Now, you can add the Tracy to the list of places where internet retailer Amazon is calling home. Read More
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The effect of California’s high youth unemployment on the economy
A recent report indicates that the urgent problem of high youth unemployment exists because there is a disconnect among employers, educators and youth. Read More
Categories: Californians, Economy
What’s Possible: New Ideas for our Fiscal Path Forward
Last week, John Myers moderated a frank discussion at Cal State Sacramento about what drastic measures are needed to get our state back on track. Here's what was said. Read More
Categories: Economy, Government
California economy hurt by out-of-work Millennials
California's economic recovery is unquestionably hampered by the 850,000 people aged 16-24 who are neither in school nor working Read More
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Redwood Coast injecting life into local economy
As recently as a decade ago, the sprawling redwood north of California, a region the size of Connecticut and New Jersey combined, had no broadband access, difficult transportation challenges across hundreds of miles of mountains, and a generation of workers who found themselves tempted to tell their children to move elsewhere to find good jobs. Read More
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California gas prices: what happened and what’s next?
With the Legislature out of session and the general election still a few weeks away, the airwaves have been dominated by talk of sky-high prices at the pump. We do a mini round-up so you have an idea as to what's happening and where we go from here. Read More
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