Finding Out What Fiscal Armageddon Means
Armageddon could be worse. “We’re not literally talking about the end of the world,” Joe Mathews joked with the audience at the California Endowment. But, short of the end of the world, California is in dire budget straits, finally facing the “Armageddon cuts” that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has evoked for five years. Cuts proposed by the governor would hit health and human services, which account for about 30% of the state budget, Mathews said. The governor has proposed eliminating CalWorks, which strives to take Californians from welfare to jobs; eliminating …
