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Both officials and abortion providers have made it very clear that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917111/even-without-roe-v-wade-abortion-is-still-legal-in-california-heres-what-you-need-to-know\">abortion access in California will not change\u003c/a> because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision. \u003ca class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">Read more about the overturning of Roe v. Wade\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original story continues:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>Californians used 2.6% more water this January than they did two years ago, in January 2020, before the state declared a drought emergency, suggesting urban residents are failing to take the warning seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increased water use in California’s cities and towns came during \u003ca href=\"https://www.noaa.gov/news/us-saw-its-coolest-driest-january-in-8-years\">the second-driest January on record\u003c/a>, as the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/02/california-water-climate-change-snowpack/\">Sierra Nevada snowpack continues to dwindle\u003c/a> — and another dry summer looms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Alice Towey, water conservation manager, East Bay Municipal Utility District\"]‘Clearly, it’s becoming difficult [to conserve] this time of year, when nature is normally watering our East Bay gardens.’[/pullquote]The San Francisco Bay Area was one of the only regions that slightly reduced water consumption in January, using 1.4% less than in January two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new state Department of Water Resources data, which details urban water use statewide, shows that Gov. 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Yet, Newsom has so far stopped short of issuing a mandatory order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the voluntary call, some areas were doing OK, others not so well,” said \u003ca href=\"https://pacinst.org/meet-our-staff-heather-cooley/\">Heather Cooley,\u003c/a> research director with the Pacific Institute, a global water think tank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom spokesperson Alex Stack declined to answer whether the governor intends to set a mandatory conservation order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, the State Water Resources Control Board adopted emergency regulations allowing water providers to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/01/california-drought-water/\">bar certain wasteful water uses\u003c/a>, such as hosing down sidewalks with tap water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But water use nevertheless ticked up statewide, compared to January two years ago. The biggest increase was in the \u003ca href=\"https://cawaterlibrary.net/hydrological-region/colorado-river/\">desert region\u003c/a> that includes the Palm Springs area and the Imperial Valley, where water use increased 19% over January 2020 levels. The \u003ca href=\"https://cawaterlibrary.net/hydrological-region/south-lahontan/\">South Lahontan region\u003c/a>, spanning the Sierra Nevada mountain communities of Southern California and Death Valley, had the second highest increase, at 9%. Residents of the Los Angeles basin and San Diego County used 1.8% more water, while those in most of the Central Valley used 6% to 7% more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is, however, some progress to report: Statewide, residents used nearly 6.5% less water between July 2021 and January 2022, as compared to that same period two years earlier. But that reduction still fell far short of Newsom’s requested 15%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/t9JDM/10/\" width=\"800\" height=\"750\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a year after Newsom declared a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/04/governor-drought-emergency-in-northwestern-counties/\">drought emergency in hard-hit northwest counties\u003c/a>, some experts say a state mandate is critical to keeping enough water in storage to survive a drought that could last for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The message gets pretty garbled,” Cooley said, of the state’s voluntary request. “With a mandate, it’s a very clear message about the need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://eesa.lbl.gov/profiles/newsha-ajami/\">Newsha Ajami\u003c/a>, a longtime water researcher, said the mandate should have happened months ago, when reservoirs were low and there was no precipitation in sight. “Having a mandatory water restriction is in everyone’s benefit,” said Ajami, who is a chief strategy and development officer for research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new state data only includes water use from urban water districts, not rural irrigation districts that serve farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference last week in Sacramento, California’s Natural Resources Secretary \u003ca href=\"https://resources.ca.gov/About-Us/Secretary-Crowfoot\">Wade Crowfoot\u003c/a> thanked residents for their water-reduction efforts but reiterated a plea for voluntary cutbacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m also here on behalf of Gov. Newsom to ask all of us to do more,” Crowfoot said. “It’s once again time for Sacramentans, residents of this region, Californians to step up and help us navigate through this drought.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several years\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>into the last devastating drought, in 2015, Gov. Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.ca.gov/archive/gov39/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/4.1.15_Executive_Order.pdf\">authorized state regulators\u003c/a> to order reductions from water suppliers in an effort to conserve 25% more water across the state. Regions were assigned a certain percentage of water depending on \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/conservation_portal/docs/factsheet/implementing_25percent.pdf\">their existing use\u003c/a> — and could face escalating consequences\u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/conservation_portal/docs/factsheet/fs_compliance_actions.pdf\"> and fines \u003c/a>if they exceeded those thresholds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians responded: They cut their water use by 23.9% between June 2015 and February 2016, compared to the same months in 2013, according to water board staff. Cities and towns still use less water daily than they did before the last drought began: about 17% less per person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, however, many water suppliers have relied \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/06/california-water-shortage/\">on ramping up outreach and rebates\u003c/a> rather than imposing new restrictions or fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ordering California’s water suppliers to cut back further would likely prove controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"drought\"]State Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://sd14.senate.ca.gov/\">Melissa Hurtado\u003c/a>, a Democrat from Hanford, is skeptical that it would work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re still not even over the [COVID-19] vaccine mandate and the testing mandate, and now you’re going to ask people to cut down on water consumption? That you should take less showers and you can’t get a new pool or whatever it may be?” she said. “Yeah, no, that’s going to make people really angry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurtado called for structural and technological changes — like \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/09/california-drought-farmers/\">developing more drought-resistant crops\u003c/a> and fixing canals damaged by subsidence — over behavioral ones. Those, however, take time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water providers caution against reading too much into the low January conservation numbers: It’s harder for Californians to make a dent in their water use during the winter, when many already cut back on watering their yards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, which had record-setting storms, Californians used 15.6% less water compared to the previous year, with the greatest savings in southern parts of the state. It was the first time Californians statewide crossed the 15% water conservation target that Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/07/california-water-use-drought/\">urged residents to meet last summer\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since July, the greatest savings came from the hard-hit North Coast and the San Francisco Bay Area, and the least from the inland mountains and deserts of central and southeast California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water systems on the North Coast “were the canary in the coal mine,” said Marielle Rhodeiro, research data specialist with the water board’s conservation program. “They were the first to start running out of water. I think there’s a little bit more awareness up north, probably because we’re closer to the immediate problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-some-water-suppliers-crack-down-others-coax\">Some water suppliers crack down, others coax\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For some local water agencies, voluntary calls for conservation have been relatively successful, although reductions have fallen short of the state’s 15% target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Municipal Utility District, for instance, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/06/08/ebmud-to-charge-more-for-water-but-wont-force-customers-to-use-less/\">upped its rates\u003c/a> to fund improvements and asked residents to voluntarily cut water use by 10%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district ramped up rebates for replacing turf in yards and street medians, and launched an advertising campaign on streaming audio platforms and social media recommending five-minute songs for people to listen to while they showered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It worked, to a certain extent: From July through December, water use decreased by more than 10%, compared to the same period last year, the district reported to the state. But now the savings are slipping; water use increased in February, according to district water conservation manager Alice Towey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clearly, it’s becoming difficult [to conserve] this time of year, when nature is normally watering our East Bay gardens,” she said. This February was \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/national-climate-202202\">California’s second-driest on record\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farther south, in San José, insufficient voluntary conservation \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjwater.com/customer-care/mandatory-conservation-plan-2021\">prompted the local water company to institute surcharges\u003c/a> for those who exceeded mandatory limits. In November, the California Public Utilities Commission approved the district’s mandate, which took effect in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sjwater.com/drought\">San José residents saved 20% more water\u003c/a> in November compared to 2019 levels. But those savings evaporated in December and January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area also lost about half of its above-ground water storage capacity due to earthquake retrofits for the region’s largest reservoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liann Walborsky, San José Water’s director of corporate communications, said her company supported a statewide mandate. “I think it would just help validate all the work we’ve been doing since June,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-mandates-may-not-be-enough\">Mandates may not be enough\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For some water systems, even mandatory calls for conservation haven’t been enough to weather water shortages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By May 2021, in the small North Coast hamlet of Mendocino, residents and businesses were required to use 40% less water than their allocations. Wells still went dry, water trucked from other districts climbed in cost when it was available, and restaurants in a town reliant on tourism were forced to weigh whether staying open was worth the expense of washing the dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Rhoades, supervisor for the Mendocino City Community Services District, said he filled buckets of creek water to keep relatives’ toilets flushing. He said most residents managed to stay below the mandatory target, but estimates that about 5% didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county and state stepped in to help, subsidizing trucks to haul water 60 miles from Ukiah to a reservoir in nearby Fort Bragg to bolster the coastal towns’ supplies. The conservation mandate was lifted after early winter rains, and was replaced by a call to voluntarily reduce use \u003ca href=\"https://www.mccsd.com/\">by 15% of each well owner’s allotment\u003c/a>. The city, however, is bracing for another dry summer — and hoping to prevent more shortages ahead.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"State Sen. Melissa Hurtado, D-Hanford\"]‘We’re still not even over the vaccine mandate and the testing mandate, and now you’re going to ask people to cut down on water consumption? That you should take less showers and you can’t get a new pool or whatever it may be? Yeah, no, that’s going to make people really angry.’[/pullquote]Rhoades said he’s awaiting word from the state on possible funding to tie into the local school district’s water supply, drill more wells and increase storage. The wait, he said, is “frustrating and challenging, because people are aware that we have a problem, and we need help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state budget last year \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/BudgetAddendum.pdf\">included $5.2 billion\u003c/a> for drought response and water resiliency. Since the drought began, the Department of Water Resources has awarded more than $195 million to projects aimed at addressing shortages and bolstering emergency and longer-term supplies, including those supporting \u003ca href=\"https://tableau.cnra.ca.gov/t/DWR_IntegratedDataAnalysisBranch/views/Drought_Projects_20211112/DashboardDroughtFunding?%3Adisplay_count=n&%3Aembed=y&%3AisGuestRedirectFromVizportal=y&%3Aorigin=viz_share_link&%3AshowAppBanner=false&%3AshowVizHome=n\">underserved communities\u003c/a> and tribes with well repairs and other efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislation \u003ca href=\"https://water.ca.gov/-/media/DWR-Website/Web-Pages/Programs/Water-Use-And-Efficiency/Make-Water-Conservation-A-California-Way-of-Life/Files/PDFs/Final-WCL-Primer.pdf\">enacted after the last drought \u003c/a>called for urban water providers to develop water budgets based on a number of factors, including indoor and outdoor water efficiency standards. Calculating water budgets is expected to take through the end of 2023, but could pave the way for more sophisticated, targeted mandates going forward, said Cooley, from the Pacific Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But urban water use is just a small part of California’s water supply problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of all the water Californians use, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/\">about 20% flows through urban taps, hoses and sprinklers\u003c/a>. Almost \u003ca href=\"https://water.ca.gov/Programs/Water-Use-And-Efficiency/Agricultural-Water-Use-Efficiency\">all the rest is for agriculture\u003c/a>, which pumps water from wells and also gets supplies from rivers as well as state and federal aqueducts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the last drought in 2015, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-gov-brown-agriculture-water-restrictions-20150405-story.html\">Brown was criticized \u003c/a>for not imposing conservation orders on that sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should be doing more conservation in general, and particularly in drought years,” said \u003ca href=\"https://watershed.ucdavis.edu/people/jay-r-lund\">Jay Lund\u003c/a>, a UC Davis professor of civil and environmental engineering. “But the quantities of water that we will save from this conservation will not be enough to take a tremendous amount of pressure off of farmers or off the environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters environment coverage is supported by the 11th Hour Project and Len and Mary Anne Baker.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom spokesperson Alex Stack declined to answer whether the governor intends to set a mandatory conservation order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, the State Water Resources Control Board adopted emergency regulations allowing water providers to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/01/california-drought-water/\">bar certain wasteful water uses\u003c/a>, such as hosing down sidewalks with tap water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But water use nevertheless ticked up statewide, compared to January two years ago. The biggest increase was in the \u003ca href=\"https://cawaterlibrary.net/hydrological-region/colorado-river/\">desert region\u003c/a> that includes the Palm Springs area and the Imperial Valley, where water use increased 19% over January 2020 levels. The \u003ca href=\"https://cawaterlibrary.net/hydrological-region/south-lahontan/\">South Lahontan region\u003c/a>, spanning the Sierra Nevada mountain communities of Southern California and Death Valley, had the second highest increase, at 9%. Residents of the Los Angeles basin and San Diego County used 1.8% more water, while those in most of the Central Valley used 6% to 7% more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is, however, some progress to report: Statewide, residents used nearly 6.5% less water between July 2021 and January 2022, as compared to that same period two years earlier. But that reduction still fell far short of Newsom’s requested 15%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/t9JDM/10/\" width=\"800\" height=\"750\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a year after Newsom declared a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/04/governor-drought-emergency-in-northwestern-counties/\">drought emergency in hard-hit northwest counties\u003c/a>, some experts say a state mandate is critical to keeping enough water in storage to survive a drought that could last for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The message gets pretty garbled,” Cooley said, of the state’s voluntary request. “With a mandate, it’s a very clear message about the need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://eesa.lbl.gov/profiles/newsha-ajami/\">Newsha Ajami\u003c/a>, a longtime water researcher, said the mandate should have happened months ago, when reservoirs were low and there was no precipitation in sight. “Having a mandatory water restriction is in everyone’s benefit,” said Ajami, who is a chief strategy and development officer for research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new state data only includes water use from urban water districts, not rural irrigation districts that serve farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference last week in Sacramento, California’s Natural Resources Secretary \u003ca href=\"https://resources.ca.gov/About-Us/Secretary-Crowfoot\">Wade Crowfoot\u003c/a> thanked residents for their water-reduction efforts but reiterated a plea for voluntary cutbacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m also here on behalf of Gov. Newsom to ask all of us to do more,” Crowfoot said. “It’s once again time for Sacramentans, residents of this region, Californians to step up and help us navigate through this drought.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several years\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>into the last devastating drought, in 2015, Gov. Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.ca.gov/archive/gov39/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/4.1.15_Executive_Order.pdf\">authorized state regulators\u003c/a> to order reductions from water suppliers in an effort to conserve 25% more water across the state. Regions were assigned a certain percentage of water depending on \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/conservation_portal/docs/factsheet/implementing_25percent.pdf\">their existing use\u003c/a> — and could face escalating consequences\u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/conservation_portal/docs/factsheet/fs_compliance_actions.pdf\"> and fines \u003c/a>if they exceeded those thresholds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians responded: They cut their water use by 23.9% between June 2015 and February 2016, compared to the same months in 2013, according to water board staff. Cities and towns still use less water daily than they did before the last drought began: about 17% less per person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, however, many water suppliers have relied \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/06/california-water-shortage/\">on ramping up outreach and rebates\u003c/a> rather than imposing new restrictions or fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ordering California’s water suppliers to cut back further would likely prove controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>State Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://sd14.senate.ca.gov/\">Melissa Hurtado\u003c/a>, a Democrat from Hanford, is skeptical that it would work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re still not even over the [COVID-19] vaccine mandate and the testing mandate, and now you’re going to ask people to cut down on water consumption? That you should take less showers and you can’t get a new pool or whatever it may be?” she said. “Yeah, no, that’s going to make people really angry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurtado called for structural and technological changes — like \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/09/california-drought-farmers/\">developing more drought-resistant crops\u003c/a> and fixing canals damaged by subsidence — over behavioral ones. Those, however, take time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water providers caution against reading too much into the low January conservation numbers: It’s harder for Californians to make a dent in their water use during the winter, when many already cut back on watering their yards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, which had record-setting storms, Californians used 15.6% less water compared to the previous year, with the greatest savings in southern parts of the state. It was the first time Californians statewide crossed the 15% water conservation target that Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/07/california-water-use-drought/\">urged residents to meet last summer\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since July, the greatest savings came from the hard-hit North Coast and the San Francisco Bay Area, and the least from the inland mountains and deserts of central and southeast California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water systems on the North Coast “were the canary in the coal mine,” said Marielle Rhodeiro, research data specialist with the water board’s conservation program. “They were the first to start running out of water. I think there’s a little bit more awareness up north, probably because we’re closer to the immediate problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-some-water-suppliers-crack-down-others-coax\">Some water suppliers crack down, others coax\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For some local water agencies, voluntary calls for conservation have been relatively successful, although reductions have fallen short of the state’s 15% target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Municipal Utility District, for instance, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/06/08/ebmud-to-charge-more-for-water-but-wont-force-customers-to-use-less/\">upped its rates\u003c/a> to fund improvements and asked residents to voluntarily cut water use by 10%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district ramped up rebates for replacing turf in yards and street medians, and launched an advertising campaign on streaming audio platforms and social media recommending five-minute songs for people to listen to while they showered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It worked, to a certain extent: From July through December, water use decreased by more than 10%, compared to the same period last year, the district reported to the state. But now the savings are slipping; water use increased in February, according to district water conservation manager Alice Towey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clearly, it’s becoming difficult [to conserve] this time of year, when nature is normally watering our East Bay gardens,” she said. This February was \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/national-climate-202202\">California’s second-driest on record\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farther south, in San José, insufficient voluntary conservation \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjwater.com/customer-care/mandatory-conservation-plan-2021\">prompted the local water company to institute surcharges\u003c/a> for those who exceeded mandatory limits. In November, the California Public Utilities Commission approved the district’s mandate, which took effect in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sjwater.com/drought\">San José residents saved 20% more water\u003c/a> in November compared to 2019 levels. But those savings evaporated in December and January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area also lost about half of its above-ground water storage capacity due to earthquake retrofits for the region’s largest reservoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liann Walborsky, San José Water’s director of corporate communications, said her company supported a statewide mandate. “I think it would just help validate all the work we’ve been doing since June,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-mandates-may-not-be-enough\">Mandates may not be enough\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For some water systems, even mandatory calls for conservation haven’t been enough to weather water shortages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By May 2021, in the small North Coast hamlet of Mendocino, residents and businesses were required to use 40% less water than their allocations. Wells still went dry, water trucked from other districts climbed in cost when it was available, and restaurants in a town reliant on tourism were forced to weigh whether staying open was worth the expense of washing the dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Rhoades, supervisor for the Mendocino City Community Services District, said he filled buckets of creek water to keep relatives’ toilets flushing. He said most residents managed to stay below the mandatory target, but estimates that about 5% didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county and state stepped in to help, subsidizing trucks to haul water 60 miles from Ukiah to a reservoir in nearby Fort Bragg to bolster the coastal towns’ supplies. The conservation mandate was lifted after early winter rains, and was replaced by a call to voluntarily reduce use \u003ca href=\"https://www.mccsd.com/\">by 15% of each well owner’s allotment\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11 a.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under new legislation passed swiftly and unanimously by state lawmakers on Monday, and immediately signed into law by the governor, UC Berkeley will no longer be forced to turn away thousands of students from its incoming freshman class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than two weeks ago, the state \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/college-admissions-california-homelessness-berkeley-university-of-california-1e78be3efe09aee2681ea85e5eb3c95c\">Supreme Court ordered the university to reduce its enrollment\u003c/a>. The court sided with a Berkeley neighborhood group that had sued the school, arguing that university officials did not adequately consider the environmental impacts of its planned enrollment increase, as required by a state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the newly approved legislation (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB118\">Senate Bill 118\u003c/a>) gives UC Berkeley and other schools up to 18 months to comply with the law before judges can order them to reduce enrollment. And it is retroactive, effectively reversing the state high court’s ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m grateful to the Legislature for moving quickly on this critical issue. It sends a clear signal that California won’t let lawsuits get in the way of the education and dreams of thousands of students, our future leaders and innovators,” Gov. 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On-campus housing at the school is limited, and many students live off campus. Rents are expensive, especially for apartments closer to campus, while residents grumble over the added traffic, noise and housing costs brought by an increased student body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court agreed with the neighborhood group and ordered the university to stop construction of more housing and classroom space and to keep its enrollment at the same level as the 2020-21 school year. School officials said that meant they would have to reject or offer online-only options to about 2,600 students for the upcoming freshman class whom they had planned to accept on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling stunned lawmakers, parents and anxious applicants awaiting to hear whether they would be admitted this fall. University officials and students pleaded with state lawmakers for an emergency fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers in the state Legislature dominated by Democrats responded with unusual speed, writing and passing a bill in just 11 days. Most other bills take up to eight months before they become law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This would have shut the doors of college education for thousands of Californians,” said Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, a Democrat from Sacramento. “Our economy requires more college graduates. We know that college is the ticket to the middle class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/PhilTing/status/1503515581869264896\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Assemblymember Phil Ting, a UC Berkeley alum, who introduced the legislation with state Sen. Nancy Skinner of Berkeley, said the university was partly to blame for failing to properly plan for campus growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think the students should really pay the price for bad bureaucratic decisions and a very poor lawyer,” Ting said on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ thanked legislators for their quick action and said the school is “committed to continuing our efforts to address a student housing crisis through new construction of below market housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers hoped the bill would end the controversy. But Phil Bokovoy, president of Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods, warned that “this poorly drafted bill will result in more litigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC Berkeley does not have the capacity to handle more students,” said Bokovoy, an alumnus of the school who lives near its bustling campus. “We don’t want new students to have to live in their cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the law is narrowly tailored to fix the specific problem at UC Berkeley, it applies to all state colleges and universities. It does not, however, include broader reforms called for by legislators from both parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Assemblymember Phil Ting, a UC Berkeley alum, who introduced the legislation with state Sen. Nancy Skinner of Berkeley, said the university was partly to blame for failing to properly plan for campus growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think the students should really pay the price for bad bureaucratic decisions and a very poor lawyer,” Ting said on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ thanked legislators for their quick action and said the school is “committed to continuing our efforts to address a student housing crisis through new construction of below market housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers hoped the bill would end the controversy. But Phil Bokovoy, president of Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods, warned that “this poorly drafted bill will result in more litigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC Berkeley does not have the capacity to handle more students,” said Bokovoy, an alumnus of the school who lives near its bustling campus. “We don’t want new students to have to live in their cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the law is narrowly tailored to fix the specific problem at UC Berkeley, it applies to all state colleges and universities. It does not, however, include broader reforms called for by legislators from both parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, said the environmental protection law has been “distorted beyond recognition to empower anyone with enough money to hire a lawyer to delay or block even the most environmentally sustainable project” — including the construction of bike lanes, public transportation and clean energy projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a rare moment of alignment, Republicans agreed, with San Joaquin Valley Assemblymember Vince Fong saying there’s growing appetite in both parties for reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But the question remains,” he said, “is there the political will to make that happen?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Sara Hossaini contributed reporting to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>There’s a collective groan rippling across California as drivers pull into gas stations and see prices above $5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gas prices per gallon are getting higher across the U.S., but prices in California are soaring higher than those in any other state, according to \u003ca href=\"https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/\">AAA\u003c/a>. Yesterday, the average price of gas in California was $5.69 — up from $4.68 a month ago — while the national average was $4.32.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of what has driven up gas prices over the past several months is outside of California lawmakers’ control: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the sanctions that followed, have spiked prices, combined with the fact that \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/22959903/russia-ukraine-oil-gas-price-europe-us-exports-climate-change\">demand for oil has ramped up from pandemic lows faster than supply\u003c/a>.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"James Bushnell, energy economist, UC Davis\"]'While the war is affecting the gas supply, a gas tax cut could mean more profits for gas sellers, and less of a price reduction.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s gas prices tend to be higher than those in other states in part because of higher taxes for infrastructure and environmental fees. State lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article147437054.html\">raised the gas tax by $0.12\u003c/a> after a fraught battle in 2017 to pay for roads, bridges, transit projects and more. Then there’s some amount of higher gas prices in California that’s harder to account for, which Severin Borenstein, an energy economist at UC Berkeley, has dubbed the \"\u003ca href=\"https://energyathaas.wordpress.com/2018/10/15/trying-to-unpack-californias-mystery-gasoline-surcharge/\">mystery gasoline surcharge\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people are feeling the effects of \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=emm_epm0_pte_nus_dpg&f=m\">climbing prices\u003c/a> now, and both Democrat and Republican state lawmakers say they want to help. One option is decreasing the state tax on gas suppliers, with the aim of reducing prices. Another, which Gov. Gavin Newsom teased in his \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/03/gov-newsom-speech/\">State of the State address\u003c/a>, is some form of rebate to help defray the higher cost of gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how each of those proposals would work, and what they would mean for Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Decrease the tax on gas suppliers — but by how much?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California taxes gas before it gets sold and uses the money to fund highway improvements and transit projects. Right now that tax — paid by suppliers — is about $0.51 per gallon, which makes it the \u003ca href=\"https://www.taxadmin.org/assets/docs/Research/Rates/mf.pdf\">second highest in the nation\u003c/a>, after Pennsylvania’s tax. It increases a little bit each year to keep up with inflation. This July the tax is set to go up by about \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4528\">$0.03 per gallon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom made a modest proposal in January, before Russia invaded Ukraine: Pause the increase for one year. In other words, don’t let the tax go up by $0.03 this year. The Newsom administration described it as \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\">an effort “to potentially lower the price of gasoline”\u003c/a> and provide some relief to consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal is so small that “it’s not going to have an effect that anyone will notice,” said Borenstein, the Berkeley economist. Drivers probably wouldn’t notice, but people managing state infrastructure budgets probably would: The plan would cost the state about $523 million in lost revenue. That would mostly wind up affecting funding for state highway projects in a couple of years, according to \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4528\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">analysis from the Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of the majority-Democrat Legislature, which Newsom would need to get on board with his plan, aren’t wild about the idea, saying “our focus cannot be a small cut to the gas tax that might not get passed on to consumers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Republicans have proposed wiping away the whole $0.51 tax in the short term. Last year, Republican state senators \u003ca href=\"https://cssrc.us/content/senate-republicans-call-gas-tax-holiday\">proposed suspending the tax completely for a year\u003c/a>; this year, Granite Bay Republican Kevin Kiley \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1638\">proposed getting rid of the tax for six months\u003c/a>. The six-month proposal would cost the state somewhere between $4 billion and $4.5 billion in lost revenue, according to estimates from Assemblymember Kiley’s office. In both cases, the lost tax money for infrastructure would be made up for by a one-time infusion of other state funds into infrastructure accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The gas tax is something that we control as state lawmakers and it is one lever by which we can provide California taxpayers a bit of relief,” said Kiley. It would be impossible for a Republican to get a bill passed through the Democrat-controlled Legislature without significant support from Democrats; so far a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocregister.com/2022/03/02/proposal-from-gop-lawmakers-would-cut-california-gas-tax-for-six-months/\">couple of Democrats have expressed interest\u003c/a> in the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because the tax applies to gas suppliers, the price of gas would go down only if gas sellers actually passed the savings along to consumers by reducing the price of gas. And there aren’t any guarantees on how much of the savings they’d pass along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, economists at the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office reviewed research on how changes in fuel taxes affect fuel prices, said Seth Kerstein, an economist at the agency. They estimated that between two-thirds to 100% of the governor’s proposal — or \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4528\">$0.02 to $0.03 per gallon\u003c/a> — would likely be passed along to people paying at the pump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that same estimated range applies to the Republicans’ larger tax break — which the agency did not analyze — it would translate into roughly $0.34 to $0.51 per gallon in savings at the pump. Generally, economic theory would say that larger tax changes would get passed through in the same way as smaller ones, said James Bushnell, an energy economist at UC Davis. But gas tax changes also are generally much smaller than $0.51, so the research has been focused on the impacts of smaller changes, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was before Russia invaded Ukraine and the sanctions on Russian companies and gas that followed threw the international gas market into flux.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gas tax breaks “come up every time there’s some kind of oil shock,” said Bushnell. “And that’s the absolute worst time to cut these taxes if the goal is to relieve customer prices.” Gas sellers are less likely to pass all of the savings on to customers when the supply of gas is constrained. In other words, while the war is affecting the gas supply, a gas tax cut could mean more profits for gas sellers, and less of a price reduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, \u003ca href=\"https://energyathaas.wordpress.com/2018/10/15/trying-to-unpack-californias-mystery-gasoline-surcharge/\">California may have a less competitive market\u003c/a> for gas distribution and retail than other states, Borenstein, the Berkeley economist, has found. Far more gasoline in California “flows through stations that are owned by refiners or have long-term contracts that give the refiners significant control over gas prices,” he wrote. That could make it even more likely that sellers pocket some of the savings of a gas tax break for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the question of just how much tax breaks would actually save consumers, Borenstein said reducing or getting rid of the gas tax would be bad policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need gasoline prices to reflect the real costs to society,” said Borenstein, referring to the negative effects of greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, and the costs of cars hitting other cars, bikers or pedestrians. When you add up all those costs, gas taxes are actually too low, he wrote in an analysis of the governor’s proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Checks from the state for high gas prices\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During his \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/03/fact-checking-newsom-speech-2022-state-of-state/\">State of the State address\u003c/a> on Tuesday, Newsom unveiled another idea for helping Californians with high gas prices — or, at least, the germ of an idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll be submitting a proposal to put money back in the pockets of Californians to address rising gas prices,” he said. The proposal will be a tax rebate and give billions of dollars to Californians, a spokesperson for the governor said, though it’s not clear yet who exactly will get the money and how much they will get.[aside tag=\"gas, energy\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]The money may be tied to owning a car that’s registered with the state, said Dee Dee Myers, an economic adviser to Newsom. People who have switched to other modes of transit to reduce their carbon footprint \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/IDoTheThinking/status/1501398807631646729\">aren’t\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/skip_sf/status/1501406272729632769\">wild\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/schadenfraade/status/1501573882284806147\">about\u003c/a> that idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It could also wind up looking like the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/02/california-golden-state-stimulus-600-check/\">stimulus checks California sent out last year\u003c/a>, said Chris Hoene, executive director of the California Budget and Policy Center. If the last stimulus program is an indicator, the state could send out checks a couple of months after lawmakers reach an agreement, Hoene said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding could come from the state’s estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\">$21 billion surplus\u003c/a>. But there are a lot of “ifs” and “maybes” because most of the details still need to be worked out with the legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This proposal would also ensure that money intended to reach Californians actually does, said Bushnell, the UC Davis economist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sending out checks to everyone — if lawmakers go that route — would also be more economically equitable than lowering the price of gas, said Borenstein. \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/3/20/21184814/climate-change-energy-income-inequality\">Wealthier people use more energy than poorer people\u003c/a> on average, so lowering the price of gas would help them more. If lawmakers send out checks, they could choose who gets how much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A rebate could also help Californians deal with other rising costs, like rent and electricity. 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Gavin Newsom made a modest proposal in January, before Russia invaded Ukraine: Pause the increase for one year. In other words, don’t let the tax go up by $0.03 this year. The Newsom administration described it as \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\">an effort “to potentially lower the price of gasoline”\u003c/a> and provide some relief to consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal is so small that “it’s not going to have an effect that anyone will notice,” said Borenstein, the Berkeley economist. Drivers probably wouldn’t notice, but people managing state infrastructure budgets probably would: The plan would cost the state about $523 million in lost revenue. That would mostly wind up affecting funding for state highway projects in a couple of years, according to \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4528\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">analysis from the Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of the majority-Democrat Legislature, which Newsom would need to get on board with his plan, aren’t wild about the idea, saying “our focus cannot be a small cut to the gas tax that might not get passed on to consumers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Republicans have proposed wiping away the whole $0.51 tax in the short term. Last year, Republican state senators \u003ca href=\"https://cssrc.us/content/senate-republicans-call-gas-tax-holiday\">proposed suspending the tax completely for a year\u003c/a>; this year, Granite Bay Republican Kevin Kiley \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1638\">proposed getting rid of the tax for six months\u003c/a>. The six-month proposal would cost the state somewhere between $4 billion and $4.5 billion in lost revenue, according to estimates from Assemblymember Kiley’s office. In both cases, the lost tax money for infrastructure would be made up for by a one-time infusion of other state funds into infrastructure accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The gas tax is something that we control as state lawmakers and it is one lever by which we can provide California taxpayers a bit of relief,” said Kiley. It would be impossible for a Republican to get a bill passed through the Democrat-controlled Legislature without significant support from Democrats; so far a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocregister.com/2022/03/02/proposal-from-gop-lawmakers-would-cut-california-gas-tax-for-six-months/\">couple of Democrats have expressed interest\u003c/a> in the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because the tax applies to gas suppliers, the price of gas would go down only if gas sellers actually passed the savings along to consumers by reducing the price of gas. And there aren’t any guarantees on how much of the savings they’d pass along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, economists at the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office reviewed research on how changes in fuel taxes affect fuel prices, said Seth Kerstein, an economist at the agency. They estimated that between two-thirds to 100% of the governor’s proposal — or \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4528\">$0.02 to $0.03 per gallon\u003c/a> — would likely be passed along to people paying at the pump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that same estimated range applies to the Republicans’ larger tax break — which the agency did not analyze — it would translate into roughly $0.34 to $0.51 per gallon in savings at the pump. Generally, economic theory would say that larger tax changes would get passed through in the same way as smaller ones, said James Bushnell, an energy economist at UC Davis. But gas tax changes also are generally much smaller than $0.51, so the research has been focused on the impacts of smaller changes, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was before Russia invaded Ukraine and the sanctions on Russian companies and gas that followed threw the international gas market into flux.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gas tax breaks “come up every time there’s some kind of oil shock,” said Bushnell. “And that’s the absolute worst time to cut these taxes if the goal is to relieve customer prices.” Gas sellers are less likely to pass all of the savings on to customers when the supply of gas is constrained. In other words, while the war is affecting the gas supply, a gas tax cut could mean more profits for gas sellers, and less of a price reduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, \u003ca href=\"https://energyathaas.wordpress.com/2018/10/15/trying-to-unpack-californias-mystery-gasoline-surcharge/\">California may have a less competitive market\u003c/a> for gas distribution and retail than other states, Borenstein, the Berkeley economist, has found. Far more gasoline in California “flows through stations that are owned by refiners or have long-term contracts that give the refiners significant control over gas prices,” he wrote. 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The governor highlighted those wins, noting the state’s impressive GDP growth and strong job growth over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report from the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office released last month projected that the state will rake in at least $6 billion more than anticipated in Newsom’s January budget proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A healthy budget windfall will allow Newsom and legislative Democrats to pursue record investments, like the $1.5 billion the governor wants to spent on electric vehicle charging stations, rebates for purchasing electric cars and local green initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s leadership in clean technology … is not just a national security and an environmental justice imperative. Clean energy is this generation's greatest economic opportunity,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newsom offered no details on how the tax refund would be calculated. 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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom is an unlikely champion of California’s down and out. Yet the wine entrepreneur, who built his political career and fortune with help from the state’s wealthy elite, campaigned on a promise to address California’s disparities — and do so boldly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From his \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/01/07/newsom-inaugural-address/\">first day in office\u003c/a> in January 2019, Newsom called the manifestations of California’s inequality — homelessness, poverty and rising costs — “moral imperatives,” not just policy priorities. “So long as they persist, each and every one of us is diminished,” he declared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those inequalities persisted and were laid bare by two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, a tumultuous time that saw the governor overcome a Republican-led effort to recall him from office last September.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Chris Hoene, director, California Budget and Policy Center\"]‘If the comparison is where we were when he took over as governor, and where we are today, he’s facing a ton of headwinds. And the urgency and the need drives expectations about him doing more.’[/pullquote]Now with the pandemic receding, the economy rebounding and no major political opposition standing in his way to reelection this year, Newsom has the opportunity to return to his original priority of reducing the stain\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>of poverty on the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is expected to address the issue today in the final State of the State speech of his first term. ”There is going to be an explicit callout on inequality, and the stakes,” said an aide, who spoke only if not named because they were not authorized to give a preview of the speech. “One of the themes of the speech is going to be democracy, and tying that to how unchecked inequality undermines democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some experts and advocates say Newsom’s efforts to close the economic divide may determine his legacy — and help set him apart from his predecessor and fellow Democrat, Jerry Brown, who insisted state government could only go so far \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-mixed-ledger-of-jerry-brown-11544803128\">in closing the divide between rich and poor\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the comparison is past governors in California, he’s trying to do a lot,” said Chris Hoene, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/\">California Budget and Policy Center\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that researches policy affecting lower-income Californians. “If the comparison is where we were when he took over as governor, and where we are today, he’s facing a ton of headwinds. And the urgency and the need drives expectations about him doing more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, the jobs recovery is in full swing, and though California has lagged other states, it could at last see improvements as mask mandates loosen and the economy returns more to normal. The pandemic — and record state budget surpluses — have given Newsom the opportunity to address the state’s inequalities. The Democratic leaders of the state Assembly and Senate leaders also say they want to use the budget to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/01/california-legislature-what-to-expect-in-2022/\">create a more inclusive recovery and more equitable economy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Assembly GOP leader James Gallagher of Yuba City said it’s the policies of Democrats that are driving inequality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a huge surplus because the wealthiest are doing so well,” he said. “That doesn’t tell the story of the middle- and low-income earners in this state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, he said working families are getting hammered by the state’s high cost of gasoline, \u003ca href=\"https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/\">which according to AAA\u003c/a> has now topped an average of $5 a gallon — an increase \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1500616012936404998?s=20&t=rVWBoDfE4mpwCbhd1sf3aA\">accelerated by the Ukraine war\u003c/a>, although Gallagher and other \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenateRepCaucus/status/1500855328396640257?s=20&t=PuXYRJdx071mxt-zKe53Xw\">Republicans also blame the state’s gas tax\u003c/a>, which Democrats \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-gas-tax-signing-20170428-story.html\">raised in 2017 \u003c/a>under Brown to repair roads and bridges and expand mass transit. Newsom has proposed putting off a scheduled July increase, but he has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/02/california-legislators-debates-preview/\">met resistance\u003c/a> from his own party in the Legislature. The climate change agenda of California Democrats also has driven up the cost of utilities, further deepening inequality, Gallagher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think he genuinely cares about this issue, but I think that his policies — the policies of either he, or Democrats in the Legislature — have made the problem worse,” Gallagher said. “The other problem is that the governor has a lack of follow-through. He’s big on pronouncements and announcing new programs, but pretty short on implementation and results.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s Newsom’s record?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In his State of the State speech last year, Newsom returned to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/03/09/governor-newsom-delivers-state-of-the-state-address-charting-californias-path-to-a-brighter-future/\">theme of inequality\u003c/a>, indicating his belief the pandemic was “widening gaps between the haves and the have-nots.” “California’s most acute preexisting condition remains income inequality,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his three years in office, he has pushed through several significant initiatives:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Steadily expanding Medi-Cal coverage to include undocumented people until they turn 26 and once they turn 50, and in his \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/01/california-budget-newsom/\">January budget\u003c/a> proposing covering those previously excluded. But the expansion would still leave several hundred thousand undocumented immigrants \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/02/medi-cal-expansion-immigrants/\">unable to qualify\u003c/a> because they earn above the program’s annual income thresholds.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>In 2019, expanding the state’s earned income tax credit and the young child tax credit to help boost the wages of low-paid workers and families.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>In 2020, he signed a law allowing anyone with an individual taxpayer identification number to qualify for the expanded earned income tax credit. That made \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2020/12/tax-credits-undocumented-workers-california-law/\">undocumented workers\u003c/a> eligible to receive hundreds, or thousands, of dollars each year. Last year, he \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/02/california-600-stimulus-checks-undocumented-workers/\">signed a measure\u003c/a> giving $600 one-time payments to those who receive the state’s earned income tax credit, along with an extra $600 for certain undocumented taxpayers not eligible for some federal aid.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>During the pandemic, expanding eligibility for several safety net programs, including food assistance, allowing for more people to participate. In particular, the state \u003ca href=\"https://calfresh.guide/temporary-reporting-and-recertification-changes-because-of-covid-19/\">paused the recertification process\u003c/a> in the state’s CalFresh program, which provides food benefits to some 2.6 million lower-income households. And the state last year created a \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/free-school-meals-here-to-stay-in-california/658564\">universal free school meals program\u003c/a>, doing away with a previous income requirement.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>When taking office, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2019/01/newsom-paid-family-leave-proposal-analyzed/\">announcing plans\u003c/a> to assist working parents with a six-month, paid family leave program. He has so far extended the program to eight weeks per parent. In 2020, he signed a bill expanding unpaid family leave to include smaller employers, but in 2021 vetoed a bill intended to extend the program to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/07/california-paid-family-leave/\">lower-income workers\u003c/a>. The governor also has made progress on his goals to expand preschool, with a plan to provide universal transitional kindergarten for 4-year-olds by 2025.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Experts and activists say making higher education more affordable is important to reducing inequality in the state. Last year, the administration eliminated age and time-out-of-high-school requirements for Cal Grant scholarships to community colleges. But the governor \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/10/cal-grant-expansion-veto/\">vetoed a bill\u003c/a> that would have made Cal Grants more broadly available. Lawmakers last year also signaled the intent to expand a scholarship for middle-class students in the state, as well as more slots in public universities for California students, though \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2021/06/california-college-budget/\">lawmakers must agree this year\u003c/a> to fund those promises.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The governor’s efforts with economic recovery, trying to \u003ca href=\"https://opr.ca.gov/economic-development/just-transition/cerf.html#regions\">target funds regionally\u003c/a>, could help the Central Valley and other parts of the state that are struggling. Such work might not be easy; a legislative effort to retrain oil workers already has sparked a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2022/02/just-transition-bill-for-oil-industry-workers-exposes-labor-rift/\">political fight\u003c/a> among some of the state’s labor unions.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Still, advocates say the state could be doing more to shrink the economic divide.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What do the numbers show?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While recessions \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/ca-divide-economic-inequality/2022/02/california-income-inequality/\">tend to widen income disparities\u003c/a> between rich and poor, earnings have increased for lower-income workers while unprecedented government relief kept millions from falling into poverty. That’s despite the sharp downturn in 2020, and the disproportionate number of pandemic-related job losses hitting lower-wage sectors. During the recovery, some of the biggest gains are in the leisure and hospitality sectors, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/person/sarah-bohn/\">Sarah Bohn\u003c/a>, vice president and policy research chair with the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wages are picking up the most at the low end of the spectrum, even though we’re still in a recovery period with elevated unemployment,” Bohn said. “It might be that inequality is actually decreasing during the pandemic — which is kind of crazy, and we’ll know more soon — but when you just look at the wage statistics, the sectors that are lowest paid have the highest increase in wages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, data from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.atlantafed.org/chcs/wage-growth-tracker\">Federal Reserve Bank of \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.atlantafed.org/chcs/wage-growth-tracker\">Atlanta \u003c/a>shows typical wages for the bottom 25% of earners growing faster than for those of other income groups. Meanwhile the Biden administration has highlighted research from two influential UC Berkeley economists underscoring that economic growth has been broadly shared since he took office in January 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, income inequality statistics for 2020 are not yet available, but the trend has been one of dramatic widening over the long run, with the modern economy placing a premium on highly educated workers. Analyzing pretax income and including cash from some safety net programs, the PPIC found income growth for the bottom 10% of families in California lagging significantly behind the top 10% from 1980 to 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://inequality.stanford.edu/about/people/david-grusky\">David Grusky\u003c/a>, director of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, said that while incomes may be increasing on the bottom end, those with higher incomes were less interrupted by job losses and many saw a significant rise in the value of their assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those people who had money in the stock market fared well, and those are the people who are well off,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its highest earners doing well, and a major boost in federal aid, California’s budget has been flush with surpluses during the pandemic. And Congress last year passed President Biden’s American Rescue Plan, which California has used to address some of its longstanding inequities. Newsom and legislators have invested billions in homelessness programs, affordable housing, aid to undocumented immigrants and its youth mental health system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The youth mental health system reforms are “transformational and are expected to be permanent,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/about/our-staff/ed-lazere\">Ed Lazere\u003c/a>, a researcher who tracks state fiscal policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Focus on homelessness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In many ways, much of Newsom’s political career has been defined by one of the most visible manifestations of the state’s extremes — homelessness. He garnered political attention and notoriety from activists with his Care Not Cash initiative as a San Francisco supervisor, a measure intended to cut general assistance programs for the unhoused in exchange for housing and other services. He often walked through the city’s Tenderloin, where he saw homelessness for himself.[aside postID=\"news_11901253,news_11907155,news_11906414\" label=\"Related Posts\"]In 2020, just before COVID, Newsom dedicated his \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/02/19/governor-newsom-delivers-state-of-the-state-address-on-homelessness/\">State of the State\u003c/a> address solely to the subject. During the pandemic, his administration \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homeless/2021/05/newsom-end-homelessness-pandemic-lessons/\">converted dozens of run-down motels into shelters\u003c/a> and housing for unhoused people. Last year, he and the Legislature allocated $12 billion to homelessness programs. He’s proposing another $2 billion in the 2022-23 budget. He’s also moving ahead with an ambitious plan to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homeless/2021/11/california-homeless-camps-clearing-plan/\">clear homeless encampments\u003c/a> and offer services to people living in them. And last week, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/03/newsom-california-mental-illness-treatment/\">Newsom outlined a plan to allow courts\u003c/a> to force some unhoused individuals with serious mental illness and substance use disorders into treatment, while also providing some services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all that, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homeless/2022/03/california-homeless-count/\">homelessness remains\u003c/a> one of the biggest problems facing his administration. Two-thirds of voters \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6ft4h17c\">in a February poll from UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies\u003c/a> said he’s doing a poor or very poor job on the issue, contributing to a lower approval rating than before the recall election last September. And \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/02/california-crime-homelessness/\">along with public perception of rising crime\u003c/a>, it may be what gets in the way of a smooth path to a second term in this year’s election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Californians care about inequality: In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-economic-well-being-november-2021/\">November survey by the PPIC\u003c/a>, 69% said the gap between rich and poor is growing in their region, and 76% supported increasing government funding so child care is available to more lower-income working parents. And how Newsom decides to lead on inequality will matter politically in Sacramento given the number of moderate Democrats and legislators finding themselves in new districts untested by voters, many of whom could be unlikely to support riskier policies without a push from the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who advocate for those policies will be watching: “It does seem like Newsom is treating a commitment to reducing poverty as one of his key legacy commitments, and so that’s wonderful,” said Grusky of Stanford. But, he said, “we can do, and should do, even more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article is part of the\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-divide/\">\u003cem> California Divide\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> project, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequality and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Now with the pandemic receding, the economy rebounding and no major political opposition standing in his way to reelection this year, Newsom has the opportunity to return to his original priority of reducing the stain\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>of poverty on the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is expected to address the issue today in the final State of the State speech of his first term. ”There is going to be an explicit callout on inequality, and the stakes,” said an aide, who spoke only if not named because they were not authorized to give a preview of the speech. “One of the themes of the speech is going to be democracy, and tying that to how unchecked inequality undermines democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some experts and advocates say Newsom’s efforts to close the economic divide may determine his legacy — and help set him apart from his predecessor and fellow Democrat, Jerry Brown, who insisted state government could only go so far \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-mixed-ledger-of-jerry-brown-11544803128\">in closing the divide between rich and poor\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the comparison is past governors in California, he’s trying to do a lot,” said Chris Hoene, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/\">California Budget and Policy Center\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that researches policy affecting lower-income Californians. “If the comparison is where we were when he took over as governor, and where we are today, he’s facing a ton of headwinds. And the urgency and the need drives expectations about him doing more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, the jobs recovery is in full swing, and though California has lagged other states, it could at last see improvements as mask mandates loosen and the economy returns more to normal. The pandemic — and record state budget surpluses — have given Newsom the opportunity to address the state’s inequalities. The Democratic leaders of the state Assembly and Senate leaders also say they want to use the budget to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/01/california-legislature-what-to-expect-in-2022/\">create a more inclusive recovery and more equitable economy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Assembly GOP leader James Gallagher of Yuba City said it’s the policies of Democrats that are driving inequality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a huge surplus because the wealthiest are doing so well,” he said. “That doesn’t tell the story of the middle- and low-income earners in this state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, he said working families are getting hammered by the state’s high cost of gasoline, \u003ca href=\"https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/\">which according to AAA\u003c/a> has now topped an average of $5 a gallon — an increase \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1500616012936404998?s=20&t=rVWBoDfE4mpwCbhd1sf3aA\">accelerated by the Ukraine war\u003c/a>, although Gallagher and other \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenateRepCaucus/status/1500855328396640257?s=20&t=PuXYRJdx071mxt-zKe53Xw\">Republicans also blame the state’s gas tax\u003c/a>, which Democrats \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-gas-tax-signing-20170428-story.html\">raised in 2017 \u003c/a>under Brown to repair roads and bridges and expand mass transit. Newsom has proposed putting off a scheduled July increase, but he has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/02/california-legislators-debates-preview/\">met resistance\u003c/a> from his own party in the Legislature. The climate change agenda of California Democrats also has driven up the cost of utilities, further deepening inequality, Gallagher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think he genuinely cares about this issue, but I think that his policies — the policies of either he, or Democrats in the Legislature — have made the problem worse,” Gallagher said. “The other problem is that the governor has a lack of follow-through. He’s big on pronouncements and announcing new programs, but pretty short on implementation and results.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s Newsom’s record?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In his State of the State speech last year, Newsom returned to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/03/09/governor-newsom-delivers-state-of-the-state-address-charting-californias-path-to-a-brighter-future/\">theme of inequality\u003c/a>, indicating his belief the pandemic was “widening gaps between the haves and the have-nots.” “California’s most acute preexisting condition remains income inequality,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his three years in office, he has pushed through several significant initiatives:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Steadily expanding Medi-Cal coverage to include undocumented people until they turn 26 and once they turn 50, and in his \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/01/california-budget-newsom/\">January budget\u003c/a> proposing covering those previously excluded. But the expansion would still leave several hundred thousand undocumented immigrants \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/02/medi-cal-expansion-immigrants/\">unable to qualify\u003c/a> because they earn above the program’s annual income thresholds.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>In 2019, expanding the state’s earned income tax credit and the young child tax credit to help boost the wages of low-paid workers and families.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>In 2020, he signed a law allowing anyone with an individual taxpayer identification number to qualify for the expanded earned income tax credit. That made \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2020/12/tax-credits-undocumented-workers-california-law/\">undocumented workers\u003c/a> eligible to receive hundreds, or thousands, of dollars each year. Last year, he \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/02/california-600-stimulus-checks-undocumented-workers/\">signed a measure\u003c/a> giving $600 one-time payments to those who receive the state’s earned income tax credit, along with an extra $600 for certain undocumented taxpayers not eligible for some federal aid.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>During the pandemic, expanding eligibility for several safety net programs, including food assistance, allowing for more people to participate. In particular, the state \u003ca href=\"https://calfresh.guide/temporary-reporting-and-recertification-changes-because-of-covid-19/\">paused the recertification process\u003c/a> in the state’s CalFresh program, which provides food benefits to some 2.6 million lower-income households. And the state last year created a \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/free-school-meals-here-to-stay-in-california/658564\">universal free school meals program\u003c/a>, doing away with a previous income requirement.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>When taking office, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2019/01/newsom-paid-family-leave-proposal-analyzed/\">announcing plans\u003c/a> to assist working parents with a six-month, paid family leave program. He has so far extended the program to eight weeks per parent. In 2020, he signed a bill expanding unpaid family leave to include smaller employers, but in 2021 vetoed a bill intended to extend the program to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/07/california-paid-family-leave/\">lower-income workers\u003c/a>. The governor also has made progress on his goals to expand preschool, with a plan to provide universal transitional kindergarten for 4-year-olds by 2025.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Experts and activists say making higher education more affordable is important to reducing inequality in the state. Last year, the administration eliminated age and time-out-of-high-school requirements for Cal Grant scholarships to community colleges. But the governor \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/10/cal-grant-expansion-veto/\">vetoed a bill\u003c/a> that would have made Cal Grants more broadly available. Lawmakers last year also signaled the intent to expand a scholarship for middle-class students in the state, as well as more slots in public universities for California students, though \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2021/06/california-college-budget/\">lawmakers must agree this year\u003c/a> to fund those promises.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The governor’s efforts with economic recovery, trying to \u003ca href=\"https://opr.ca.gov/economic-development/just-transition/cerf.html#regions\">target funds regionally\u003c/a>, could help the Central Valley and other parts of the state that are struggling. Such work might not be easy; a legislative effort to retrain oil workers already has sparked a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2022/02/just-transition-bill-for-oil-industry-workers-exposes-labor-rift/\">political fight\u003c/a> among some of the state’s labor unions.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Still, advocates say the state could be doing more to shrink the economic divide.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What do the numbers show?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While recessions \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/ca-divide-economic-inequality/2022/02/california-income-inequality/\">tend to widen income disparities\u003c/a> between rich and poor, earnings have increased for lower-income workers while unprecedented government relief kept millions from falling into poverty. That’s despite the sharp downturn in 2020, and the disproportionate number of pandemic-related job losses hitting lower-wage sectors. During the recovery, some of the biggest gains are in the leisure and hospitality sectors, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/person/sarah-bohn/\">Sarah Bohn\u003c/a>, vice president and policy research chair with the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wages are picking up the most at the low end of the spectrum, even though we’re still in a recovery period with elevated unemployment,” Bohn said. “It might be that inequality is actually decreasing during the pandemic — which is kind of crazy, and we’ll know more soon — but when you just look at the wage statistics, the sectors that are lowest paid have the highest increase in wages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, data from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.atlantafed.org/chcs/wage-growth-tracker\">Federal Reserve Bank of \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.atlantafed.org/chcs/wage-growth-tracker\">Atlanta \u003c/a>shows typical wages for the bottom 25% of earners growing faster than for those of other income groups. Meanwhile the Biden administration has highlighted research from two influential UC Berkeley economists underscoring that economic growth has been broadly shared since he took office in January 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, income inequality statistics for 2020 are not yet available, but the trend has been one of dramatic widening over the long run, with the modern economy placing a premium on highly educated workers. Analyzing pretax income and including cash from some safety net programs, the PPIC found income growth for the bottom 10% of families in California lagging significantly behind the top 10% from 1980 to 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://inequality.stanford.edu/about/people/david-grusky\">David Grusky\u003c/a>, director of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, said that while incomes may be increasing on the bottom end, those with higher incomes were less interrupted by job losses and many saw a significant rise in the value of their assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those people who had money in the stock market fared well, and those are the people who are well off,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its highest earners doing well, and a major boost in federal aid, California’s budget has been flush with surpluses during the pandemic. And Congress last year passed President Biden’s American Rescue Plan, which California has used to address some of its longstanding inequities. Newsom and legislators have invested billions in homelessness programs, affordable housing, aid to undocumented immigrants and its youth mental health system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The youth mental health system reforms are “transformational and are expected to be permanent,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/about/our-staff/ed-lazere\">Ed Lazere\u003c/a>, a researcher who tracks state fiscal policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Focus on homelessness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In many ways, much of Newsom’s political career has been defined by one of the most visible manifestations of the state’s extremes — homelessness. He garnered political attention and notoriety from activists with his Care Not Cash initiative as a San Francisco supervisor, a measure intended to cut general assistance programs for the unhoused in exchange for housing and other services. He often walked through the city’s Tenderloin, where he saw homelessness for himself.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state should not get involved in the Oakland school board's recent controversial decision to close, merge or shrink 11 schools over the next two years — a decision that's been met with fury from local families and educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board said they needed to take the action because they have too many schools for a dwindling number of students, citing a need for cost-cutting measures to help solve a structural deficit. OUSD is still paying $30 million in debt to the state from a loan given decades ago to head off bankruptcy. [aside postID=\"news_11905982\" label=\"More on the Oakland school closure fight\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Oakland educators, Moses Omolade and Maurice André San-Chez, went on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905982/how-dare-you-oakland-school-closure-decision-inspires-new-opposition-efforts\">hunger strikes\u003c/a> to protest the decision. They said one of the conditions of ending their strike was that Newsom meet with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his talk with KQED, Newsom disclosed that his chief of staff met with the hunger strikers last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omolade and San-Chez agreed to end their hunger strike in mid-February after the district called a special board meeting, where it ultimately decided to move forward with the closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor visited Redwood City on Wednesday\u003ca href=\"https://www.grants.ca.gov/grants/encampment-resolution-funding-program/\"> to bring attention to his Encampment Resolution Funding Program\u003c/a>, which is doling out $50 million to counties that have plans to eliminate specific encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While getting his hands dirty cleaning up a roadside encampment, Newsom previewed his upcoming conservatorship proposal, talked about his view on the Oakland school closures, and more, in this interview with KQED's Kate Wolffe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On the Oakland hunger strikers, who were protesting the closure and merging of 11 schools in the district\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I so appreciate their advocacy, and compassion for the community, and their advocacy on behalf of the school system and the communities the school system serves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These local decisions are local decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I remember in San Francisco when I was mayor, I think when I was supervisor, even prior, there were some schools that had to close. 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But at the state level, I know what we are doing, which is providing unprecedented support for our schools and record-breaking per-pupil investments that should provide more flexibility to Oakland [Unified] School District than they've ever had in their history to address some of their financial challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On efforts to resolve encampments in the state\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The last two years, we all know what happened. We didn't just have a pandemic, but we had stasis. And the CDC had specific, very explicit guidelines that said don't touch the encampments because of COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11906665\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11906665 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_6076-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_6076-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_6076-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_6076-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_6076-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_6076-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_6076-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Newsom helps to clean up an encampment in Redwood City on Feb. 23, 2022. \u003ccite>(Kate Wolffe, KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So the entire year 2020, I think there were two dozen encampments cleaned up the entire year by the state of California. We've done 431 just in the last few months. So we've got all this residual stress that has exacerbated conditions on the street more visible than it's ever been. And I recognize that. And now there's no excuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On the importance of addressing homeless encampments locally\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you're a local elected official, you step up. If this is the crisis that it is and you have identified as such, then get out here — act like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm serious. We're doing our part. Now you can come out and follow up, do your part. If you need help, identify specifically, what specific help do you need?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[When I was mayor,] the state of California was nowhere to be found on homelessness. Nowhere. When I was mayor, we didn't get a dollar. There was no strategy plan, no accountability. No one, ever. I mean, the last thing I ever thought about was calling Arnold Schwarzenegger or Gray Davis. It's completely, radically changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I got here there was no plan. There was no accountability and there was no playbook. And there was half a billion dollars that the last administration threw out at the last minute. Now we have $14 billion. We have a plan, we have strategies, we actually have accountability plans, including this Encampment Resolution grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On the challenges of resolving encampments\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>(\u003cem>Note: At the particular encampment that Newsom was cleaning in Redwood City, Caltrans said no residents accepted a shelter bed.\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re going to have to keep meeting people where they are. You don't give up. I mean, of course, that's the case. What I think, look, I mean, this is not my first encampment, this is not my first effort. I reject the fatalism that, well, because \"in this circumstance, that circumstance, we weren't successful in encouraging people to get the support and services they need\" that we give up. That just means keep working at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11906668\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11906668\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_6082-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_6082-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_6082-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_6082-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_6082-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_6082-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_6082-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An encampment in Redwood City. \u003ccite>(Kate Wolffe, KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One thing I can guarantee: Continue to do what you've done, you get what you've got. And there's a status quo anti-ism in all of this. If you don't create, as we say in psychology, a \"pattern interrupt\" — and this is a pattern interrupt for every single one of them — then you're not going to enliven someone to the opportunity to turn their lives around. They're just quite literally going to die.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On his upcoming conservatorship proposal\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Laws on conservatorship are outdated and they're very controversial. It's very emotional and people have very strong opinions, and we've been fighting these fights for decades and nothing gets done. 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But at the state level, I know what we are doing, which is providing unprecedented support for our schools and record-breaking per-pupil investments that should provide more flexibility to Oakland [Unified] School District than they've ever had in their history to address some of their financial challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On efforts to resolve encampments in the state\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The last two years, we all know what happened. We didn't just have a pandemic, but we had stasis. 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