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SACRAMENTO, CA — On May 14th, the Governor released his revision to his January 10th budget proposal. This revision, as anticipated, was comprised of an all-cuts answer to our budget debacle. The Governor proposes to eradicate CalWORKS and leave over 1.4 million Californians’ without the assistance and services they need to survive. He proposes to reduce funding for K-12 education by $1.5 billion, eliminate child care services ($1.2 billion), and drastically cut Medi-Cal ($1.6 billion). He has introduced his plan to completely strip-down In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS), a plan that would force our elderly out of their homes and communities, displace them from familiar suroundings, and would push them into more costly assisted living and nursing homes. The Revision also seeks to reduce county mental health services, cut unpaid leave for state employees, eliminate court reporters, and more.
The Governor’s vicious May Revision stabs at the core of California’s social services, and at the well-being and health of our middle-class, with programmatic attempts at callous savings. What will be left of California’s middle-class if we allow these cuts do happen? What will we leave for our next generation?
This boorish, all-cuts answer to our budget meltdown would be devastating to California residents, workers, and working families. AFSCME will fight to retain our social services, create good-paying jobs that stay in Califorina, and will provide sound, responsible alternatives and solutions that will inject new revenues into our state budget.
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