The Concord Coalition and Next 10, both of which are nonpartisan groups advocating for balanced budgets, first teamed up to create the online tool in 2009, and they have updated the program each year with the most recent policy proposals. Overall, the tool highlights some of the difficult choices that have divided Democrats and Republicans in recent years, while also gives users a chance to weigh what programs are most important to them.
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While lawmakers are working on appropriations bills to fund the government next year, they seem to have lost interest in trying to meet the country’s long-term fiscal challenges.
WASHINGTON -- While lawmakers are working on appropriations bills to fund the government next year, they seem to have lost interest in trying to meet the country’s long-term fiscal challenges.
How much should California spend on programs and where should revenue come from?
The Budget Challenge game has returned by the nonprofit Next 10 to find out how ordinary Californians would spend tax dollars if they were calling the shots.
SAN FRANCISCO – After being $20 billion in the red in 2010, today Next 10 is releasing a newly updated version of the California Budget Challenge (www.budgetchallenge.org) that asks a question many thou
It will be hotter. It will be drier, at times, and wetter at others. We'll get less water from the Sierra Nevada snowpack, and the Pacific Ocean will rise and creep inland. But beyond those brute certainties, scientists, futurists, technologists, and entrepreneurs offer competing visions about how climate change will affect California in the decades to come.
San Diego California's air board next week will emphasize the need to set a greenhouse gas reduction target for 2030, a potential guidepost as the state eyes an ambitious 2050 emissions goal, a top executive said here.
The clean technology (clean tech) sector is a vital part of the economy, generating new jobs and businesses while making California’s transition toward a cleaner and more efficient economy possible.
Ready for some genetically altered algae in your Dove soap or Ben & Jerry's ice cream?