by Brian Leubitz [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

I think our podcast of the 80th AD went exceedingly well. The mayor of Coachella, Eduardo Garcia, called in to talk about job creation and  related topics. And we took a few calls throughout the show to talk about issues in the race.

Here are the websites for the four candidates:

Rick Gonzales.

Dr. Richard Guttierez

Manuel Perez

Greg Pettis.

[courtesy of California Progress Report]

By Robert Cruickshank

The California Budget Project's report, A Generation of Inequality: The State of Working California, 1979-2006, has already started to grab public attention, such as a front-page article in the SF Chronicle.

It's about time. Although neoliberalism has been hurting working Californians since 1979, it's been in the last few years that the situation has become dramatically worse. Low wages, poor job growth prospects, and soaring costs of living are killing the California Dream for millions of residents of this state.

Below I offer an overview of the report, and some suggestions on what we can - and should - do about the growing crisis.

The CBP has identified several major factors that illustrate the widening inequality in California:

• 70% of job creation in California since 1979 has been in high-wage or low-wage jobs. The middle-income folks have faced stagnation or declining incomes.

• Wage gains are not only unevenly shared, but inflation and the soaring cost of living has hit low- and middle-income workers harder than their counterparts in other states.

by Robert in Monterey [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

The California Budget Project's report, A Generation of Inequality: The State of Working California, 1979-2006, has already started to grab public attention, such as a front-page article in the SF Chronicle.

It's about time. Although neoliberalism has been hurting working Californians since 1979, it's been in the last few years that the situation has become dramatically worse. Low wages, poor job growth prospects, and soaring costs of living are killing the California Dream for millions of residents of this state.

Below I offer an overview of the report, and some suggestions on what we can - and should - do about the growing crisis.