A big part of the new budget deal between Governor Jerry Brown and Democratic lawmakers concerns CalWORKs, the state's welfare-to-work program. Democratic leaders had resisted cutting the cash assistance portion of the program when unemployment is still so high. Now, they say, both sides have found a middle ground they can live with.
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