Time for a California Constitutional Convention? On the Next Your Call, we'll continue our week-long series on California's economic crisis. What would it take to call a constitutional convention in California, and what could be achieved?
Steven Hill, director of the Political Reform Program at the New America Foundation, is a featured guest. Link to audio
How did California's budget crisis happen? On the next Your Call, we continue our week long series about California's economic crisis by focusing on how we got here in the first place. The State has a 24 billion dollar budget deficit. What caused it? Overspending? The state's tax system? Prop 13? The 2/3 majority requirement?
Guests:
Lenny Goldberg, executive director of the California Tax Reform Association
Low income families often end up going to check cashing outlets rather than banks. For the last 5 years or so, check cashers and payday loan companies have played the role of villain in news stories. They were the bad guys for charging ridiculously high interest rates and for ripping off the poor. But in a recent story in the New York Times Magazine check cashing tycoon Tom Nix appeared in the role of hero rather than villain. Douglas McGray,… more
