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So marijuana businesses in California -- eyeing what could become a \u003ca href=\"http://time.com/4466338/california-marijuana-legalization-vote-revenue/\">$6.4 billion industry\u003c/a> -- have turned to the state government for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not being able to trademark your brand is a huge setback if you’re trying to get capital investment,\" said Nate Bradley, who lobbies for marijuana sellers as the executive director of California Cannabis Industry Association. \"If you’re not able to protect what you’re asking people to invest in, you’re not likely to get investments.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"KtlZeChDy35HvEYGKSBQ4vAjacRA2Yyu\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill recently introduced in the Legislature would create a state-level trademark for California cannabis products, providing marijuana businesses new legal protections and greater access to cash from investors as the state ushers in a sanctioned commercial marketplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California secretary of state already has the power to register state-level trademarks, but only for items recognized by federal trademark law. \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB64\">Assembly Bill 64\u003c/a> would change that by allowing the secretary of state to register trademarks for cannabis goods and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cannabis businesses are like other businesses, lawful and regulated. 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Lauren Michaels, a lobbyist for the California Police Chiefs Association, said her group is focused on making sure that branded products aren’t advertised in a way that appeals to children. Police chiefs are supporting Bonta’s bill because it would restrict marijuana billboards near freeways. AB 64 also would speed up funding to establish \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/11019100/how-can-you-tell-if-a-driver-is-stoned\">standards for impaired driving\u003c/a> and allow recreational marijuana to be sold through \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/budding-confusion-split-over-whether-prop-64-would-allow-on-demand-marijuana-delivery/\">web-based delivery services\u003c/a> -- both contentious points in the initiative campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill already has some bipartisan support, including a Republican co-author. Still, some GOP lawmakers are wary. Senate Republican leader Jean Fuller of Bakersfield said she doesn’t yet have a position on the bill, but cautioned that \"it's always precarious for a state to take on the federal government and make laws that are in conflict.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy is being considered in Sacramento as the nation prepares for a new federal government that could be more hostile to states that have permitted marijuana. U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, who is Republican President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, has criticized the Obama administration for its hands-off approach. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/01/10/sessions-on-enforcing-federal-marijuana-laws-it-wont-be-an-easy-decision/?utm_term=.766ebe1471eb\">confirmation hearing this week\u003c/a> Sessions stopped short of saying he would go after states that have regulated pot, leaving marijuana advocates and state officials unsure of his plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked how Sessions as U.S. attorney general could impact marijuana policy in California, Democratic Gov. 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Lauren Michaels, a lobbyist for the California Police Chiefs Association, said her group is focused on making sure that branded products aren’t advertised in a way that appeals to children. Police chiefs are supporting Bonta’s bill because it would restrict marijuana billboards near freeways. AB 64 also would speed up funding to establish \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/11019100/how-can-you-tell-if-a-driver-is-stoned\">standards for impaired driving\u003c/a> and allow recreational marijuana to be sold through \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/budding-confusion-split-over-whether-prop-64-would-allow-on-demand-marijuana-delivery/\">web-based delivery services\u003c/a> -- both contentious points in the initiative campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill already has some bipartisan support, including a Republican co-author. Still, some GOP lawmakers are wary. 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"content": "\u003cp>SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Jerry Brown unveiled an austere spending plan for the fiscal year that will begin in July, returning to familiar rhetoric warning of an impending economic downturn and adding new notes of caution about how Republicans' dominance in Washington, D.C., could impact California's bottom line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/302085705\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, announcing his budget Tuesday just 10 days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, warned that this year could be the most difficult since 2012 as the \"surging tide of revenues we have enjoyed the past few years appear to have turned.\" He said the state has a $2 billion budget deficit -- far less than the $27 billion shortfall he inherited, but still important. 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Brown said as he unveiled his new budget on Tuesday in Sacramento.' width=\"800\" height=\"862\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/BudgetGraphic-800x862.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/BudgetGraphic-160x172.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/BudgetGraphic-1020x1099.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/BudgetGraphic.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/BudgetGraphic-1180x1271.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/BudgetGraphic-960x1034.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/BudgetGraphic-240x259.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/BudgetGraphic-375x404.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/BudgetGraphic-520x560.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 'surging tide of revenues we have enjoyed the past few years appear to have turned,' Gov. Brown said as he unveiled his new budget on Tuesday in Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To deal with the declining revenues, Brown said he is proposing to roll back some planned spending increases to education and to eliminate a $400 million fund for affordable housing that was not spent last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown also wants to halt $300 million in spending on modernizing state office buildings. And, the governor said he will keep spending flat by pausing rate increases for child care and not allowing any new students to qualify for a higher education scholarship fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the governor said he will protect what he called the Capitol's \"most important achievements\" under his watch -- education spending increases, an earned income tax credit for the working poor, a rising minimum wage and adding millions of Californians to the rolls of the insured. And he said he will again propose a transportation package that would add $43 billion over 10 years to help shore up roads, highways and bridges. It would be funded through new vehicle fees, an increase in the gas tax and an increase to the diesel excise tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"caCOvJvHD34SXS0CpFdcpXq2usWDsb9a\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On climate change -- one of Brown's signature issues -- the governor said he wants lawmakers to take up the state's cap-and-trade system and approve it by a two-thirds vote. The program has been in court after legal challenges that in part center around the fact that a majority, not a supermajority, of the Legislature authorized the program. Brown said that uncertainty is impacting its financial success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a very important program that's part of our climate change strategy,\" he said, noting that with people hostile to climate change policies taking over the federal government, \"the whole world is looking to us. ... We ought to continue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he is making no assumptions about what Congress and President-elect Trump will do -- particularly around health care -- but that he's not budgeting based on things that haven't yet occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are too many uncertainties that could put a massive hole in the budget,\" he said. \"This budget can move very quickly -- what I call riding the tide.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"tRtfzyVVZJm5TboxPPr0Smmh0UnOeqLB\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could go the other way, he said -- revenues could increase in coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's financial volatility, Brown said, is largely because of what the governor called the state's \"progressive\" tax structure that relies on capital gains taxes from its wealthiest residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California has the most progressive tax system in the U.S. -- but as a a corollary, we have one of the most unreliable revenue systems in the country and to manage it reliably requires prudence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said that's why he's pushed the state to save money in good years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you want a progressive tax system, you need a big rainy day fund,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans had a mixed reaction to Brown's budget proposal. Senate Minority Leader Jean Fuller (R-Bakersfield) said more money should be going to the state's reserve funds and toward paying down the state's pension liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But we agree with the governor that a spending decrease solution is far better than a tax increase solution at this time,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Jay Obernolte, R-Hesperia, rejected the governor's plan to increase gas taxes to fund road and highway repairs. Legislative Democrats have made similar proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are already paying the highest gas taxes in the country,\" Obernolte said. \"And there are large sections of revenue that we can return to funding state road and highway construction that are not being so spent right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Democratic lawmakers generally commended Brown's cautious approach, they pushed back on the lack of funding in some areas. Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D- Los Angeles) criticized Brown's plan to phase out the Middle Class Scholarship Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We must work to keep college affordable for California students, and I will not support burdening them with higher fees and greater student debt — whether that's done by raising tuition or phasing out the Middle Class Scholarship,\" Rendon said in a statement. \"Ending the Middle Class Scholarship would increase the cost of a student’s four year education by up to $9,000 at CSU and up to $20,000 at UC.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of new funding for affordable housing concerned Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, who chairs the Assembly housing committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"(Brown) repeated his position that the answer is to streamline housing approvals, and I share the perspective that many jurisdictions around our state are not doing enough to build homes for our residents, especially in areas where job growth is dramatically outpacing housing creation,\" Chiu said in a statement. \"But the market alone will never solve the housing crisis for struggling Californians.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Jerry Brown unveiled an austere spending plan for the fiscal year that will begin in July, returning to familiar rhetoric warning of an impending economic downturn and adding new notes of caution about how Republicans' dominance in Washington, D.C., could impact California's bottom line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/302085705&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/302085705'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, announcing his budget Tuesday just 10 days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, warned that this year could be the most difficult since 2012 as the \"surging tide of revenues we have enjoyed the past few years appear to have turned.\" He said the state has a $2 billion budget deficit -- far less than the $27 billion shortfall he inherited, but still important. Brown said that, in general, California's budget surpluses are far smaller than its deficits \"and that really is the challenge of California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The trajectory of revenue growth is declining ... but is still growing,\" Brown said. \"So compared to many other places in the world ... California is still growing. We would have had a deficit if we hadn't engaged in cuts and the tax measures that were passed in the ballot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11263499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11263499 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/BudgetGraphic-800x862.jpg\" alt='The \"surging tide of revenues we have enjoyed the past few years appear to have turned,\" Gov. Brown said as he unveiled his new budget on Tuesday in Sacramento.' width=\"800\" height=\"862\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/BudgetGraphic-800x862.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/BudgetGraphic-160x172.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/BudgetGraphic-1020x1099.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/BudgetGraphic.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/BudgetGraphic-1180x1271.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/BudgetGraphic-960x1034.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/BudgetGraphic-240x259.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/BudgetGraphic-375x404.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/BudgetGraphic-520x560.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 'surging tide of revenues we have enjoyed the past few years appear to have turned,' Gov. Brown said as he unveiled his new budget on Tuesday in Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To deal with the declining revenues, Brown said he is proposing to roll back some planned spending increases to education and to eliminate a $400 million fund for affordable housing that was not spent last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown also wants to halt $300 million in spending on modernizing state office buildings. And, the governor said he will keep spending flat by pausing rate increases for child care and not allowing any new students to qualify for a higher education scholarship fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the governor said he will protect what he called the Capitol's \"most important achievements\" under his watch -- education spending increases, an earned income tax credit for the working poor, a rising minimum wage and adding millions of Californians to the rolls of the insured. And he said he will again propose a transportation package that would add $43 billion over 10 years to help shore up roads, highways and bridges. It would be funded through new vehicle fees, an increase in the gas tax and an increase to the diesel excise tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On climate change -- one of Brown's signature issues -- the governor said he wants lawmakers to take up the state's cap-and-trade system and approve it by a two-thirds vote. The program has been in court after legal challenges that in part center around the fact that a majority, not a supermajority, of the Legislature authorized the program. Brown said that uncertainty is impacting its financial success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a very important program that's part of our climate change strategy,\" he said, noting that with people hostile to climate change policies taking over the federal government, \"the whole world is looking to us. ... We ought to continue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he is making no assumptions about what Congress and President-elect Trump will do -- particularly around health care -- but that he's not budgeting based on things that haven't yet occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are too many uncertainties that could put a massive hole in the budget,\" he said. \"This budget can move very quickly -- what I call riding the tide.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could go the other way, he said -- revenues could increase in coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's financial volatility, Brown said, is largely because of what the governor called the state's \"progressive\" tax structure that relies on capital gains taxes from its wealthiest residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California has the most progressive tax system in the U.S. -- but as a a corollary, we have one of the most unreliable revenue systems in the country and to manage it reliably requires prudence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said that's why he's pushed the state to save money in good years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you want a progressive tax system, you need a big rainy day fund,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans had a mixed reaction to Brown's budget proposal. Senate Minority Leader Jean Fuller (R-Bakersfield) said more money should be going to the state's reserve funds and toward paying down the state's pension liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But we agree with the governor that a spending decrease solution is far better than a tax increase solution at this time,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Jay Obernolte, R-Hesperia, rejected the governor's plan to increase gas taxes to fund road and highway repairs. Legislative Democrats have made similar proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are already paying the highest gas taxes in the country,\" Obernolte said. \"And there are large sections of revenue that we can return to funding state road and highway construction that are not being so spent right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Democratic lawmakers generally commended Brown's cautious approach, they pushed back on the lack of funding in some areas. Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D- Los Angeles) criticized Brown's plan to phase out the Middle Class Scholarship Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We must work to keep college affordable for California students, and I will not support burdening them with higher fees and greater student debt — whether that's done by raising tuition or phasing out the Middle Class Scholarship,\" Rendon said in a statement. \"Ending the Middle Class Scholarship would increase the cost of a student’s four year education by up to $9,000 at CSU and up to $20,000 at UC.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of new funding for affordable housing concerned Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, who chairs the Assembly housing committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the Central Valley there’s a bumper sticker you see all over the place. It’s shaped like California, and reads \u003ca href=\"http://www.myjobdependsonag.com/\" target=\"_blank\">“My job depends on Ag.\"\u003c/a> In California, that agriculture depends on immigrant labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many farmers here supported Donald Trump despite his hard-line stance on immigration. So as the new Trump administration prepares to take office, what's the thinking of those involved in the region's biggest industry?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just after the workday ends, men in dirty jeans and work boots stream into a small record store in the farming town of \u003ca href=\"http://ci.mendota.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\">Mendota.\u003c/a> Racks of CDs and music posters line the walls, but nobody’s browsing. The guys are in line to use the store’s wire transfer service. They’re sending money home to families in Mexico and El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just came in from the fields -- nine hours pruning pistachio trees,\" says a weary-looking man in a dust-covered sweatshirt. He’ll say only that his name is Pablo because, like all the farmworkers I talked to for this story, he’s in the country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask him what he thinks of Donald Trump’s tough talk on immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You think a gringo’s gonna be pruning pistachios?” he asks me in Spanish. He says in his 17 years working the California fields, he's seen only Latinos -- mostly immigrants -- doing this work. So he's not buying the idea that he’s taking away a job from a U.S. citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/301228183\" params=\"auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also visit \u003ca href=\"https://murrayfamilyfarms.com/california-farm-diversifies-for-success/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Murray’s farm\u003c/a> outside Bakersfield, where a few workers are crouched among rows of strawberries that will sell at farmers markets around the region. As Murray watches them work, he explains why he needs foreign workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though this area has one of the highest unemployment rates in the state, Murray says he has a hard time finding people to pick his fruit. He didn't vote for Trump, and he says his business would suffer if the new administration carries through on plans for mass deportations of immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the economy went south -- what was that, in 2007, 2008 and 2009 -- and jobs dried up, there were people that returned to Mexico and didn't come back,” he says. \"It's hard to imagine that things could get much worse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An hour north, near \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.porterville.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\">Porterville\u003c/a>, Dairy farmer \u003ca href=\"http://www.barcellosfarms.com/Contact_Us.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Barcellos\u003c/a> is feeling more optimistic. He tells me he met Trump, and he’s betting the president-elect’s business-friendly side will win out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Of course you heard about him saying 'build a wall,' \" Barcellos says. \"Well, what he told us is that wall is going to have a door in it and we're going to talk to the right people that want to come in and work, and they're going to have an opportunity to do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11256933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11256933\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"Dairy farmer Tom Barcellos.\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-800x521.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-1180x769.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-960x626.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-240x156.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-375x244.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-520x339.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dairy farmer Tom Barcellos. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s already an agricultural guest worker program -- the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-workers/h-2a-temporary-agricultural-workers\" target=\"_blank\">H-2A visa \u003c/a>program. And use has gone up steadily over the past five years as fewer workers enter the country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But every farmer I talked to complained about it, calling it cumbersome and expensive. Some experts speculate a Trump administration might strip away worker protections and create a program that's more favorable to employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barcellos says Trump assured him people who have been working in the United States for years will have a chance to get temporary visas, too. But he says, \"Citizenship ... that’s a different animal and let’s not mix up the two.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A path to citizenship doesn’t seem likely under Trump. And not every farmworker I spoke with wants U.S. citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take 36-year-old Eugenio. I meet him while he’s pruning pistachio trees on Steve Murray’s farm near\u003ca href=\"http://www.bakersfieldcity.us/\" target=\"_blank\"> Bakersfield. \u003c/a>Eugenio’s wife and kids are in Mexico. \"So I make a little money, then go back to Oaxaca where I’m building a house,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ehOfQyjgoFtLx51iJp2ymBUFjGA2292H\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eugenio tells me he’s crossed the border eight times illegally. But he says border security is so tight now he hasn’t been home to Mexico in five years. “I’m trying to figure out how to come with a work visa,” he says. \"I'd really like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there are people like Elfego, who’s working on a tree nearby. He doesn’t like the idea of visas. He’s been in the United States 17 years. His family is here. \"What would happen if Trump starts giving visas to people over there?\" he asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elfego worries legal guest workers from Mexico would replace him. “What happens with those of us who are here? He’ll deport us because we’re illegal,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some worry the future under President Trump could bring more immigration raids, less enforcement of farmworker protection laws or the forced use of \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/e-verify\" target=\"_blank\">E-Verify\u003c/a>, a government tool for checking employment eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, the only thing certain is that the Central Valley’s $35 billion agricultural economy depends on policies that balance the needs of both growers and workers.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the Central Valley there’s a bumper sticker you see all over the place. It’s shaped like California, and reads \u003ca href=\"http://www.myjobdependsonag.com/\" target=\"_blank\">“My job depends on Ag.\"\u003c/a> In California, that agriculture depends on immigrant labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many farmers here supported Donald Trump despite his hard-line stance on immigration. So as the new Trump administration prepares to take office, what's the thinking of those involved in the region's biggest industry?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just after the workday ends, men in dirty jeans and work boots stream into a small record store in the farming town of \u003ca href=\"http://ci.mendota.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\">Mendota.\u003c/a> Racks of CDs and music posters line the walls, but nobody’s browsing. The guys are in line to use the store’s wire transfer service. They’re sending money home to families in Mexico and El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just came in from the fields -- nine hours pruning pistachio trees,\" says a weary-looking man in a dust-covered sweatshirt. He’ll say only that his name is Pablo because, like all the farmworkers I talked to for this story, he’s in the country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask him what he thinks of Donald Trump’s tough talk on immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You think a gringo’s gonna be pruning pistachios?” he asks me in Spanish. He says in his 17 years working the California fields, he's seen only Latinos -- mostly immigrants -- doing this work. So he's not buying the idea that he’s taking away a job from a U.S. citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='450'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/301228183&visual=true&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/301228183'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also visit \u003ca href=\"https://murrayfamilyfarms.com/california-farm-diversifies-for-success/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Murray’s farm\u003c/a> outside Bakersfield, where a few workers are crouched among rows of strawberries that will sell at farmers markets around the region. As Murray watches them work, he explains why he needs foreign workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though this area has one of the highest unemployment rates in the state, Murray says he has a hard time finding people to pick his fruit. He didn't vote for Trump, and he says his business would suffer if the new administration carries through on plans for mass deportations of immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the economy went south -- what was that, in 2007, 2008 and 2009 -- and jobs dried up, there were people that returned to Mexico and didn't come back,” he says. \"It's hard to imagine that things could get much worse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An hour north, near \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.porterville.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\">Porterville\u003c/a>, Dairy farmer \u003ca href=\"http://www.barcellosfarms.com/Contact_Us.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Barcellos\u003c/a> is feeling more optimistic. He tells me he met Trump, and he’s betting the president-elect’s business-friendly side will win out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Of course you heard about him saying 'build a wall,' \" Barcellos says. \"Well, what he told us is that wall is going to have a door in it and we're going to talk to the right people that want to come in and work, and they're going to have an opportunity to do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11256933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11256933\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"Dairy farmer Tom Barcellos.\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-800x521.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-1180x769.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-960x626.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-240x156.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-375x244.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Barcellos-520x339.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dairy farmer Tom Barcellos. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s already an agricultural guest worker program -- the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-workers/h-2a-temporary-agricultural-workers\" target=\"_blank\">H-2A visa \u003c/a>program. And use has gone up steadily over the past five years as fewer workers enter the country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But every farmer I talked to complained about it, calling it cumbersome and expensive. Some experts speculate a Trump administration might strip away worker protections and create a program that's more favorable to employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barcellos says Trump assured him people who have been working in the United States for years will have a chance to get temporary visas, too. But he says, \"Citizenship ... that’s a different animal and let’s not mix up the two.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A path to citizenship doesn’t seem likely under Trump. And not every farmworker I spoke with wants U.S. citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take 36-year-old Eugenio. I meet him while he’s pruning pistachio trees on Steve Murray’s farm near\u003ca href=\"http://www.bakersfieldcity.us/\" target=\"_blank\"> Bakersfield. \u003c/a>Eugenio’s wife and kids are in Mexico. \"So I make a little money, then go back to Oaxaca where I’m building a house,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eugenio tells me he’s crossed the border eight times illegally. But he says border security is so tight now he hasn’t been home to Mexico in five years. “I’m trying to figure out how to come with a work visa,” he says. \"I'd really like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there are people like Elfego, who’s working on a tree nearby. He doesn’t like the idea of visas. He’s been in the United States 17 years. His family is here. \"What would happen if Trump starts giving visas to people over there?\" he asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elfego worries legal guest workers from Mexico would replace him. “What happens with those of us who are here? He’ll deport us because we’re illegal,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some worry the future under President Trump could bring more immigration raids, less enforcement of farmworker protection laws or the forced use of \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/e-verify\" target=\"_blank\">E-Verify\u003c/a>, a government tool for checking employment eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, the only thing certain is that the Central Valley’s $35 billion agricultural economy depends on policies that balance the needs of both growers and workers.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>SEATTLE — Dungeness crab could be harder to come by if hundreds of fishing boats remain tied up at docks from California to Washington state by a dispute between crabbers and seafood processors over the price of the sought-after crustaceans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crab fleets that have been fishing in parts of Oregon and near San Francisco are now anchored, and other vessels in Washington state and Northern California have opted not to go out as their season gears up, said John Corbin, a commercial crab fisherman in Warrenton, Oregon, and chairman of the Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have about 1,200 boats that are tied up and are willing to stay tied up until processors bring the price back to $3 (a pound)\" from the latest offer of $2.75, Corbin said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, crab pots remained stacked up along the docks during what typically would be a busy season. From Half Moon Bay to Westport, Washington, crabbers said they would stay put.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larry Andre, a commercial crab fisherman in Half Moon Bay who had been fishing since November, said he supports the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're tying up because they've asked us — other ports — to support them,\" Andre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It doesn't sound like much, but a quarter drop in price is a lot when thousands of pounds of crab are involved, he said, adding that the situation is a lot harder on those who have not yet started crabbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commercial Dungeness crab season along the West Coast opened in waves this year, and crabbers had been getting $3 a pound, said Corbin and other fishermen. 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It remains unclear what impact it will have on supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tribal fleets in Washington state continue to crab, and crabbing is happening in Puget Sound as well. So there is some crab on the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's going to be some fresh crab in Washington state, but not big volumes like what you'll see when the whole coast opens up,\" Corbin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Currie, a crab fisherman based out of Westport, Washington, said he's watching to see what others do when the crabbing season north of Long Beach kicks off Wednesday. Fishermen will be allowed to set gear ahead of a Jan. 7 start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If everybody stays, I'll stay. 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"content": "\u003cp>When California began raising its minimum wage two years ago, Bill Phelps and his investors were worried. Phelps is CEO of a fast food company called Wetzel's Pretzels, which has almost 100 outlets in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/300755227\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like most business people I was concerned about it,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state increased the minimum wage in mid-2014 and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/31/legislature-approves-15-minimum-wage-brown-says-hell-sign-it/\" target=\"_blank\">just raised it again on Jan. 1 to $10.50 per hour\u003c/a> for companies that employ more than 25 people. Smaller businesses will have a delay in implementation, but will follow suit as California moves along on \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/docs/Fact_Sheet_Boosting_Californias_Minimum_Wage.pdf\">its schedule to\u003c/a> reach \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2014/03/10/minimum-wage/\" target=\"_blank\">$15 per hour by 2022\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I was shocked. I was stunned by the business.' \u003ccite>Bill Phelps, CEO of Wetzel's Pretzels\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Phelps and a lot of other fast food CEOs have been worried that wage increases will cut into profits, and that if they raise prices to compensate, fewer people will come eat. So two years ago, Phelps prepared to take a hit. But something else happened entirely. Sales at his California stores immediately shot up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was shocked,” Phelps says. “I was stunned by the business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same exact pattern took place again in 2016, when the minimum wage rose again, Phelps said. There was a wage increase, and then boom, a bump in same-store sales across the state that held for most of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phelps is now convinced minimum wage increases aren’t bad for the fast food business; in fact, he says, they’re great. Phelps said you can see why if you visit the Wetzel’s Pretzels franchise in Concord’s Sunvalley Shopping Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Making Dough and Dough\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the mall you can smell the pretzels from far away. As you get close, you hear the sound of a mixer banging dough. It has to run constantly to keep up with the demand for pretzels. Business has been good the last few years, said franchise owner Mike Jacobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My overall sales were something like 15 percent ahead after the first minimum wage bump, and now they're about 12 percent ahead this year,” Jacobs said. “It isn't because I'm such a great manager or smart guy, but the buying public has more money in their pocket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobs says not only are more people coming to shop, but they're buying more. Sure enough, as Jacobs and I talk, a mall employee stops in to buy a pretzel. He ends up also paying for a dipping sauce and a drink. Jacobs says sales like this are happening all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"XBVPxbV9j3gDCZa8AEN7NXTgBAjFsuyJ\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe this is all just coincidence. Maybe California’s economy happened to jump at the same exact times the state raised minimum wages. Maybe the franchise owners all started doing something to increase sales. Even if minimum wage increases are also increasing sales for Wetzel’s Pretzels, who knows if a similar trend would happen at all fast food companies. Most Wetzel’s outlets are in places like malls, where there are lots of low-wage workers around to shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No economist has pored over the company’s data to do a proper case study. But there are at least a couple who would love to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Without Data\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley economist David Card has studied the minimum wage for over two decades. In the early 1990s, he published \u003ca href=\"http://davidcard.berkeley.edu/papers/njmin-aer.pdf\">this influential case study \u003c/a>that showed increasing the minimum wage did not reduce employment, as critics feared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Card said colleagues have long suspected that rising minimum wages could actually increase fast food sales in the U.S., but no one could prove it — because American fast food companies rarely give out detailed sales data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To test this theory, Card believes economists would need the kind of sales data Phelps is talking about at Wetzel’s Pretzels. It could be the missing piece. “Everyone knows it has been a gap,” Card said. “There has been a lot of speculation, but no one has figured out how to obtain the data.” If the data held up to analysis and Phelps is right, Card said it could help clear up a lot of misconceptions about minimum wage currently being touted as facts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, the conventional wisdom in the fast food business is that a rising minimum wage is bad for the bottom line. It’s what Phelps feared. It’s what President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of Labor, fast food businessman Andy Puzder, maintains. And even though there are not good data to back it up, Card said some economists perpetuate the idea. By doing so, he said, they’re choosing to be political instead of scientific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Economists unfortunately have, within the crowd, quite a few people who are ideologically committed to the idea that any kind of price regulation is always bad,\" said Card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stakes on this issue are high, as \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/30/pay-to-rise-for-millions-as-19-states-increase-minimum-wage.html\">a number of states\u003c/a> are raising minimum wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11245101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11245101\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage.jpg\" alt=\"Supporters of a $15 per hour minimum wage rally outside the state Capitol in Sacramento on March 31, 2016.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters of a $15 per hour minimum wage rally outside the state Capitol in Sacramento on March 31, 2016. \u003ccite>(Katie Orr/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Pretzels and More Guitars\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The minimum wage increase has just been a godsend.' \u003ccite>Mike Jacobs, Wetzel's Pretzels franchisee\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At the mall in Concord, store owner Jacobs doesn’t need an economics case study to know he’s been doing well. “By my looking at it, the minimum wage increase has just been a godsend,” Jacobs said. “My income this year will be double what it was in 2013.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobs is already putting his own increased profits back into the economy. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was shocked,” Phelps says. “I was stunned by the business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same exact pattern took place again in 2016, when the minimum wage rose again, Phelps said. There was a wage increase, and then boom, a bump in same-store sales across the state that held for most of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phelps is now convinced minimum wage increases aren’t bad for the fast food business; in fact, he says, they’re great. Phelps said you can see why if you visit the Wetzel’s Pretzels franchise in Concord’s Sunvalley Shopping Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Making Dough and Dough\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the mall you can smell the pretzels from far away. As you get close, you hear the sound of a mixer banging dough. It has to run constantly to keep up with the demand for pretzels. 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Even if minimum wage increases are also increasing sales for Wetzel’s Pretzels, who knows if a similar trend would happen at all fast food companies. Most Wetzel’s outlets are in places like malls, where there are lots of low-wage workers around to shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No economist has pored over the company’s data to do a proper case study. But there are at least a couple who would love to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Without Data\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley economist David Card has studied the minimum wage for over two decades. In the early 1990s, he published \u003ca href=\"http://davidcard.berkeley.edu/papers/njmin-aer.pdf\">this influential case study \u003c/a>that showed increasing the minimum wage did not reduce employment, as critics feared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Card said colleagues have long suspected that rising minimum wages could actually increase fast food sales in the U.S., but no one could prove it — because American fast food companies rarely give out detailed sales data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To test this theory, Card believes economists would need the kind of sales data Phelps is talking about at Wetzel’s Pretzels. It could be the missing piece. “Everyone knows it has been a gap,” Card said. “There has been a lot of speculation, but no one has figured out how to obtain the data.” If the data held up to analysis and Phelps is right, Card said it could help clear up a lot of misconceptions about minimum wage currently being touted as facts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, the conventional wisdom in the fast food business is that a rising minimum wage is bad for the bottom line. It’s what Phelps feared. It’s what President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of Labor, fast food businessman Andy Puzder, maintains. And even though there are not good data to back it up, Card said some economists perpetuate the idea. By doing so, he said, they’re choosing to be political instead of scientific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Economists unfortunately have, within the crowd, quite a few people who are ideologically committed to the idea that any kind of price regulation is always bad,\" said Card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stakes on this issue are high, as \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/30/pay-to-rise-for-millions-as-19-states-increase-minimum-wage.html\">a number of states\u003c/a> are raising minimum wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11245101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11245101\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage.jpg\" alt=\"Supporters of a $15 per hour minimum wage rally outside the state Capitol in Sacramento on March 31, 2016.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/minwage-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters of a $15 per hour minimum wage rally outside the state Capitol in Sacramento on March 31, 2016. \u003ccite>(Katie Orr/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Pretzels and More Guitars\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The minimum wage increase has just been a godsend.' \u003ccite>Mike Jacobs, Wetzel's Pretzels franchisee\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At the mall in Concord, store owner Jacobs doesn’t need an economics case study to know he’s been doing well. “By my looking at it, the minimum wage increase has just been a godsend,” Jacobs said. “My income this year will be double what it was in 2013.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobs is already putting his own increased profits back into the economy. 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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">This story is part of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/pensions\">California’s Pension Crisis Project\u003c/a>, a reporting collaboration between Capital Public Radio, The Los Angeles Times and CALmatters to explore the consequences of a historic expansion of retirement benefits for California public employees. \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities and states across the country are facing public employee pension debt that is challenging and, in some cases, crippling their budgets. But some municipalities are experimenting with ways to solve that problem. In San Jose, California, voters passed a set of sweeping pension reforms back in 2012. The public employee unions fought back in court. Now a new initiative passed this November may offer a compromise that works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a rainy day in October. Three recruiting officers from the San Jose Police Department are standing behind a table in a bustling room on a nearby public university campus. Today is the school’s career fair and the SJPD booth is covered in schwag–stickers, pens, even tiny bottles of hand sanitizer–emblazoned with the Department’s logo. They’re hoping job-seekers will stop and apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11245181\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11245181\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/deputy_chief_michael_knox_-_ali_budner_499x665.jpg\" alt=\"Deputy Chief Michael Knox.\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/deputy_chief_michael_knox_-_ali_budner_499x665.jpg 499w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/deputy_chief_michael_knox_-_ali_budner_499x665-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/deputy_chief_michael_knox_-_ali_budner_499x665-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/deputy_chief_michael_knox_-_ali_budner_499x665-375x500.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deputy Chief Michael Knox. \u003ccite>(Ali Budner/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Deputy Chief, Michael Knox says staffing numbers are at a dangerous low. In fact, he says they’re down at least 300 street-ready officers right now. “It causes us to put an enormous amount of stress on the existing staff,” Knox says “to make up for everyone who has left this department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He blames the exodus mostly on a watershed moment back in 2012. That’s when San Jose voters passed \u003ca href=\"http://www.mef101.org/Resources/12-0605%20-%20Measure%20B%20-%20Pension%20Plan%20Amendments.pdf\">local ballot measure B\u003c/a>. The initiative poured vinegar into the sweet tea of public worker compensation deals by making sweeping cuts to retirement pensions. Current employees would have to pay more for their retirement benefits or take a less generous pension. New employees would be offered less. All public workers would lose their disability protections as well the certainty of their pensions, altogether if there was a fiscal emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That has made it increasingly difficult to compete with other agencies,” says Knox. “And not only to recruit but to retain our staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the man who pioneered Measure B — former San Jose Mayor, Chuck Reed — says pension reform was necessary. When he took office back in 2007, he inherited a massive budget deficit. To deal with it, first he did all the things that make people hate politicians. He laid people off, raised taxes, and made deep cuts to public services. But he says pension costs were the real culprit.In the first two years of his term, the city’s pension debt had actually skyrocketed to almost a billion dollars. “And so when the choice was cutting services more, raising taxes more, or making some modification to retirement benefits,” Reed says, “the public was supportive of reasonable modifications.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11245186\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 499px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11245186\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/former_mayor_chuck_reed_-_ali_budner_499x374.jpg\" alt=\"Former Mayor Chuck Reed. \" width=\"499\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/former_mayor_chuck_reed_-_ali_budner_499x374.jpg 499w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/former_mayor_chuck_reed_-_ali_budner_499x374-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/former_mayor_chuck_reed_-_ali_budner_499x374-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/former_mayor_chuck_reed_-_ali_budner_499x374-375x281.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Mayor Chuck Reed. \u003ccite>(Ali Budner/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a hard and fast rule,” says Josh Rauh, professor of Finance at Stanford University. “But once more than 20 percent of the city’s revenues are going towards public employee pensions, people start saying ‘gee, this is untenable’. That’s what happened in San Jose. They crossed that threshold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure B passed with nearly 70 percent of the vote. Reed says, “It felt like the people of San Jose agreed with me that we needed to do something about retirement costs.” He argues it’s something other cities and state of California should be doing, but aren’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points to a framed editorial cartoon on his office wall. It shows California as a Titanic-like ship sinking into the sea. And two men with life jackets reading “San Jose” and “San Diego” (another city that passed its own version of pension reform) are watching it sink from their tiny lifeboat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11245187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11245187\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/political_cartoon_in_former_mayor_chuck_reed_s_office_-_ali_budner-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Political cartoon in former Mayor Chuck Reed 's office.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/political_cartoon_in_former_mayor_chuck_reed_s_office_-_ali_budner.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/political_cartoon_in_former_mayor_chuck_reed_s_office_-_ali_budner-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/political_cartoon_in_former_mayor_chuck_reed_s_office_-_ali_budner-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/political_cartoon_in_former_mayor_chuck_reed_s_office_-_ali_budner-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/political_cartoon_in_former_mayor_chuck_reed_s_office_-_ali_budner-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Political cartoon in former Mayor Chuck Reed ‘s office. \u003ccite>(Ali Budner/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So San Diego and San Jose are rowing away in a pension reform lifeboat while the state of California sinks,” says Reed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But public employee unions saw Measure B differently. They despised the new law. And it wasn’t just them. Some in the business community worried about its effect on city agencies, especially public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reginald Swilley, a co-owner of the \u003ca href=\"http://minoritybusinessconsortium.com/\">Minority Business Consortium\u003c/a> in San Jose, was so upset about the number of officers the police department lost after Measure B passed, he said he had trouble talking about it. He’s an African American businessman and activist. “You know the problem with police and black people around the country, right?” He says. “We need good police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of Measure B eventually got their say. Soon after voters passed the measure in 2012, the public employee unions challenged its legality. A superior court judge struck down a handful of the law’s provisions — saying it was unconstitutional to alter benefits for current employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Jose made a risky gamble and it failed,” says Tom Saggau, spokesperson for the San Jose police officers and firefighters. He was at the table when the city and the unions negotiated an entirely new voter initiative (Measure F) based on the court ruling. It passed by a healthy margin this November. It’s a compromise that both sides seem happy with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the workers, says Saggau, “it’s a vested benefit, that restores disability protections, and keeps a promise that if you do what you say you’re going to do, have a career here in San Jose, you’re gonna have a retirement benefit that you’re gonna be able to support yourself on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the city says it will still save about $3 billion over the next 30 years. That’s because this compromise will significantly cut down on retiree health benefits and cost of living adjustments. It will also eliminate the “13th check” — an annual bonus payment public workers had received in the years before 2012.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That has made it increasingly difficult to compete with other agencies,” says Knox. “And not only to recruit but to retain our staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the man who pioneered Measure B — former San Jose Mayor, Chuck Reed — says pension reform was necessary. When he took office back in 2007, he inherited a massive budget deficit. To deal with it, first he did all the things that make people hate politicians. He laid people off, raised taxes, and made deep cuts to public services. But he says pension costs were the real culprit.In the first two years of his term, the city’s pension debt had actually skyrocketed to almost a billion dollars. “And so when the choice was cutting services more, raising taxes more, or making some modification to retirement benefits,” Reed says, “the public was supportive of reasonable modifications.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11245186\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 499px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11245186\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/former_mayor_chuck_reed_-_ali_budner_499x374.jpg\" alt=\"Former Mayor Chuck Reed. \" width=\"499\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/former_mayor_chuck_reed_-_ali_budner_499x374.jpg 499w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/former_mayor_chuck_reed_-_ali_budner_499x374-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/former_mayor_chuck_reed_-_ali_budner_499x374-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/former_mayor_chuck_reed_-_ali_budner_499x374-375x281.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Mayor Chuck Reed. \u003ccite>(Ali Budner/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a hard and fast rule,” says Josh Rauh, professor of Finance at Stanford University. “But once more than 20 percent of the city’s revenues are going towards public employee pensions, people start saying ‘gee, this is untenable’. That’s what happened in San Jose. They crossed that threshold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure B passed with nearly 70 percent of the vote. Reed says, “It felt like the people of San Jose agreed with me that we needed to do something about retirement costs.” He argues it’s something other cities and state of California should be doing, but aren’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points to a framed editorial cartoon on his office wall. It shows California as a Titanic-like ship sinking into the sea. And two men with life jackets reading “San Jose” and “San Diego” (another city that passed its own version of pension reform) are watching it sink from their tiny lifeboat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11245187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11245187\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/political_cartoon_in_former_mayor_chuck_reed_s_office_-_ali_budner-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Political cartoon in former Mayor Chuck Reed 's office.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/political_cartoon_in_former_mayor_chuck_reed_s_office_-_ali_budner.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/political_cartoon_in_former_mayor_chuck_reed_s_office_-_ali_budner-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/political_cartoon_in_former_mayor_chuck_reed_s_office_-_ali_budner-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/political_cartoon_in_former_mayor_chuck_reed_s_office_-_ali_budner-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/political_cartoon_in_former_mayor_chuck_reed_s_office_-_ali_budner-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Political cartoon in former Mayor Chuck Reed ‘s office. \u003ccite>(Ali Budner/Capital Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So San Diego and San Jose are rowing away in a pension reform lifeboat while the state of California sinks,” says Reed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But public employee unions saw Measure B differently. They despised the new law. And it wasn’t just them. Some in the business community worried about its effect on city agencies, especially public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reginald Swilley, a co-owner of the \u003ca href=\"http://minoritybusinessconsortium.com/\">Minority Business Consortium\u003c/a> in San Jose, was so upset about the number of officers the police department lost after Measure B passed, he said he had trouble talking about it. He’s an African American businessman and activist. “You know the problem with police and black people around the country, right?” He says. “We need good police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of Measure B eventually got their say. Soon after voters passed the measure in 2012, the public employee unions challenged its legality. 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"content": "\u003cp>At first glance, food policy seems to be an afterthought in the Trump administration. The campaign saw few debates about food or farming. And the president-elect hasn't yet nominated someone to head the Department of Agriculture or the Food and Drug Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Donald Trump's lack of attention won't make future food battles any less cutthroat. Plenty of people in Washington, including powerful factions within the Republican majority in Congress, are hoping to change a wide variety of food-related policies, and believe that the new administration offers a prime opportunity to make those changes happen. Kip Tom, a farmer in Indiana who was a member of Trump's advisory committee on agricultural policy, recently told The Salt that this is a time to \"swing for the fences.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parke Wilde, an expert on food policy at Tufts University, told us in an email that shortly after the election, he had predicted that food policies would escape radical changes simply because they enjoyed a lower profile. He has changed his mind since, because \"every news report seems to show that the incoming administration plans to pursue 100 fights simultaneously. I have never seen that approach work in American politics previously. But, in these wild times, who knows?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is a list of potential changes to watch for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Will the successful alliance of farmers and poverty advocates crumble?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Farm Bill, which funds both food stamps (now known as SNAP) and farm subsidies, is due to be renegotiated by the end of 2018. Some conservative Republicans probably will renew their efforts, previously unsuccessful, to scuttle the whole package, separating the farm-related provisions and the nutrition programs into separate bills. Many observers believe that this would leave each of them more vulnerable to attack. The political factions that have traditionally supported this bill, though, including farm groups and poverty advocates, are likely to mount a fierce counterattack. The stakes are high. SNAP, in particular, is one of the country's most important \"safety net\" programs for the poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. School lunch reforms and nutrition standards may be under attack\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There could be attempts to roll back parts of the school lunch reforms ushered in during the Obama administration. Margo Wootan of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, who has been a key player in pushing for healthier food in schools, told us that \"given the deregulatory, anti-science rhetoric during the [Trump] campaign, we are on high alert.\" She says Congress \"might try to rollback school meal standards or try to dismantle the National School Lunch Program\" by converting them into \"block grants\" that states could manage with only limited federal oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wootan says other nutrition policies at risk include new menu labeling rules. Federal standards requiring chain restaurants to list calories on menus or menu boards are set to go into effect in 2017. Those rules were mandated by the Affordable Care Act. But Wootan says she's concerned that changes being considered by the incoming administration could \"weaken the provision of information to consumers.\" And she says the Dietary Guidelines for Americans that were updated this year and serve as the basis for national nutrition programs \"could be part of anti-science efforts\" during the Trump administration. The guidelines are set to be updated again in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Will the administration compromise on farmworkers?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hostility to illegal immigration was central to Trump's campaign. But farm groups, many of them bedrock supporters of the Republican Party, are adamantly opposed to any wholesale deportation of immigrants who aren't in the country legally. Many large-scale dairy farmers, and growers of fruits and vegetables, rely heavily on immigrant labor. This promises to be a delicate backroom negotiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Environmental regulations. Which will go first?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among farmers, few regulations have inspired more hostility than the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Water Rule. It laid out, among other things, a definition of which waterways should be subject to regulation under the Clean Water Act. Farmers were outraged to discover that some of their streams and ponds might be subject to federal regulation. It's likely that the EPA, under Scott Pruitt, will look for ways to withdraw or revise that rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other environmental regulations that are less well-known but probably more significant may also face scrutiny. Among them are the \"conservation compliance\" provisions of the Farm Bill. Under this law, farmers who plow up native grasslands or drain wetlands can lose their federal crop subsidies. The EPA also could reduce the number of large-scale animal feeding operations that it regulates as \"point sources\" of pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups are concerned about what Trump's pick for EPA administrator will mean for the plight of bees. Bees are important to agriculture since so many crops rely on the pollination services they provide. And as \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/11/24/457130929/as-beekeepers-lose-more-hives-time-for-new-rules-on-pesticides\">we've reported\u003c/a>, scientists are concerned that the widespread use of neonicotinoid (neonic) pesticides on crops such as corn and soybeans is linked to bee decline. Under the Obama administration, the EPA has been reviewing the safety of neonics. The Sierra Club is watching this issue closely. It pointed out in an email to its supporters that \"If Scott Pruitt is confirmed as EPA head ... it is clear he will severely weaken the EPA's power.\" The Sierra Club email continues: \"the fate of bees — and all the crops and ecosystems that depend on them — may come down to a standoff between the Trump administration and science itself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Will political inertia trump Trump?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferd Hoefner is one of the true veterans of Washington's food policy community. He has been part of these debates for almost four decades and has been policy director of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, which represents small farmers, for 28 years. And Hoefner, in contrast to every other policy advocate and lobbyist whom we contacted, believes that the Trump administration may choose to continue some pieces of\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Obama's legacy in food and farm policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the environment, he says. Alongside the predictable push to dismantle some environmental regulations, Hoefner sees a good chance that the next Farm Bill might actually contain a new initiative that environmentalists will welcome. It will focus on ways to improve the fertility and microbial health of farmland soil. Soil health has always been central to the concerns of organic farmers. \"We have witnessed in the last several years a tremendous amount of interest in soil health from more conventional farms and organizations,\" Hoefner writes, in an email to The Salt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoefner also predicts that the Trump administration will end up supporting another piece of the Obama legacy, a controversial regulation issued in recent weeks, that protects farmers from abuse at the hands of meat packers and large-scale poultry producers. 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The bill calls for the streamlining of developments in cities that don't meet those goals -- essentially, builders would be able to skip some local requirements if they are constructing homes in places that haven't built aggressively enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said it's not fair for some communities to shoulder the burden of housing expansion while others refuse to add affordable or even market rate units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Housing is no longer a city-by-city, siloed issue. 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