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Government

Sep. 17, 2010

Searching for a Way to Reboot the System in a Dysfunctional State

California's problems go far deeper and reach back further than the current recession, by John Caragozian, Karl Manheim and Don Warner of Loyola Law School.

By John Caragozian, Karl Manheim and Don Warner

California is in a terrible mess. Everybody knows it, but nobody knows how to fix it. State government is failing its citizens in education, health care, infrastructure, parks and elsewhere. Our chronic budget deficits cause havoc in the delivery of public services and depresses economic growth. City, county and school district budgets are repeatedly raided, the result of trickle-down misery. We know the Go...

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