Next 10 in the News

Nonpartisan summaries of the state ballot measures, plus comprehensive lists of supporters and opponents, can be found on a website from the Next 10 organization and government experts at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego.

In last night’s presidential debate, Republican challenger Mitt Romney offered his plan for reducing the $1.1 trillion deficit. He proposed lowering taxes in a way that would be revenue neutral and reducing federal spending.

Everyone says the federal budget needs to be balanced, but could you make the cuts and raise the taxes? Here is your chance to find out.

The latest version of our budget game, the Federal Budget Challenge, has been online for only two weeks, yet has been played by over 5,000 people from almost half of the states in the nation.

California based Next-10 is putting the online federal budget pen in the hands of ordinary people. The organization has run the California Budget project since 2005, updating the choices facing state lawmakers each year.

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This year’s budget balancing tool is sleek and easy to navigate, but the challenge itself is a difficult task. With a $15.7 billion starting deficit, the introduction of voter propositions, and the ability to see how your decisions would affect California citizens in real-time, the challenge is much harder than at first glance. This, however, is all part of Next 10’s effort to make the tool resemble the real process of creating the 2012-2013 California state budget.