The California Legislature gets back to work today after spring break. It’s crunch time for lawmakers to represent constituents.
We’re a big state with big challenges. Each morning we explain the top issues and how Californians are trying to solve them.State Sen. Steven Bradford speaks during the first day of session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Jan. 3, 2024. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMattersAs lawmakers decide the fate of hundreds of bills and how to spend billions in taxpayer money, their ability to prioritize the needs and desires of voters will matter greatly in the next few months.
That includes people like Joy Perrin, who benefited from the family program while living in a van with her two children. , to a budget subcommittee last month: “This program gave me the opportunity to show my children that poverty doesn’t have to be our name.”, a Morena Valley Democrat and chairperson of the Assembly Human Services Committee, told CalMatters that CalWORKS is “one of the most important programs” and that few others “can compete with it from a priorities perspective.
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