Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, saves lives. It’s a lifeline that provides free or low-cost health coverage to over one-third of the state’s population — including children, pregnant ...

The California Budget & Policy Center is a nonpartisan research and analysis nonprofit that examines budget and policy choices to advance public policies that expand opportunity and promote well-being ...

On a given night, more than 150,000 Californians are homeless. These individuals face significant risk of exposure to COVID-19 and serious barriers to following stay home orders to limit the spread of ...

Every Californian deserves the dignity of a safe, affordable home — an attainable reality in a state as prosperous and resourceful as California. Yet state homelessness and affordable housing ...

Policymakers avoided major cuts to critical services in the 2023-24 California state budget, but additional revenues are needed to make meaningful investments for Californians in the future. The ink ...

Proposition 1, appearing on the November 2026 ballot, would provide funding for affordable housing and accessible homeownership. Prop. 1 asks voters to authorize a $11.25 billion general obligation ...

California voters will decide on November 5th, 2024 whether to pass Proposition 35, which would 1) require the state to request federal approval for the Managed Care Organization tax on an ongoing ...

Californians should be able to take paid time off to care for themselves or their family without risking their jobs or financial security. The state’s paid family leave program was created to help ...

Proposition 39 on the November ballot would impose unnecessary, harmful, and costly new identification (ID) requirements on millions of California voters. It would harm US citizens by making it harder ...

California is expanding Transitional Kindergarten to all four-year-old children by 2025-26, supported by state investments to improve access, staffing, and equity in public preschool programs. Early ...

California is developing a new single rate structure to pay child care providers based on the estimated cost of care rather than what families can afford to pay, but improvements to the state’s ...

California’s Constitution establishes several statewide offices that oversee the functions, policies, and programs of state government. While the Governor is the most prominent and powerful statewide ...