EPISODE · Jun 30, 2021 · 17 MIN
Critics Argue State Budget Relies Too Much on Ongoing Spending
from KQED's The California Report · host KQED
California legislators have passed a new state budget and it includes billions of dollars in new ongoing spending. Now there are questions about the budget’s details and what will happen when state revenues take a dip. Reporter: Katie Orr, KQED For over a century, California has locked up juvenile offenders in prisons run by the state. But starting next month, California will begin closing its remaining juvenile detention centers and turn over that authority to individual counties. Guest: Dan Macallair, Executive Director of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice Earlier this year, Governor Gavin Newsom pledged to increase the budget for wildfires and fire prevention to $2 billion. But an investigation by CapRadio and NPR's California Newsroom has found that the governor delivered only a fraction of the money promised for wildfire resilience in the state budget. Reporter: Scott Rodd, CapRadio Ever since voters passed a $10 billion bond measure to build a high speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco, the project has been plagued by problems. And voters’ doubts about the project are growing. Reporter: Scott Shafer, KQED Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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California legislators have passed a new state budget and it includes billions of dollars in new ongoing spending. Now there are questions about the budget’s details and what will happen when state revenues take a dip. Reporter: Katie Orr, KQED For over a century, California has locked up juvenile offenders in prisons run by the state. But starting next month, California will begin closing its remaining juvenile detention centers and turn over that authority to individual counties. Guest: Dan Macallair, Executive Director of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice Earlier this year, Governor Gavin Newsom pledged to increase the budget for wildfires and fire prevention to $2 billion. But an investigation by CapRadio and NPR's California Newsroom has found that the governor delivered only a fraction of the money promised for wildfire resilience in the state budget. Reporter: Scott Rodd, CapRadio Ever since voters passed a $10 billion bond measure to build a high speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco, the project has been plagued by problems. And voters’ doubts about the project are growing. Reporter: Scott Shafer, KQED Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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