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The New York City Council on Wednesday passed sweeping legislation to prevent employers from discriminating against out-of-work job seekers. » Read More |
Riding a wave of new tax revenue, California Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday proposed a state spending plan that eliminates the deficit and provides $6.3 billion more in spending than the previous year. » Read More |
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LOS ANGELES, April 6- A political fight over charity collection bins is brewing in California, where property owners complain that the boxes are sometimes dropped onto their land without permission, becoming magnets for graffiti and shelter for transients.
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The projects, to be built mostly on federal lands in California and Nevada but funded privately, were announced by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar at a press conference in San Francisco.
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The New York City Council on Wednesday passed sweeping legislation to prevent employers from discriminating against out-of-work job seekers.
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WASHINGTON, March 11- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Monday said it plans to shut its doors for a total of seven days between May and September due to budget cuts and will furlough more than 9,000 employees on those days.
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The National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems' leadership did make the decision to hold their 2013 annual conference at a luxury resort in Hawaii before the financial crisis struck, hammering public pension funds' investments and leaving them with a funding gap of at least $770 billion.
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Federal budget cuts targeting defense and education may hit hard in California, just as the Golden State was coming back, The New York Times reports.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 22- California's largest greenhouse gas-emitting businesses paid $13.62 per metric tonne for the right to release carbon, narrowly beating market expectations in the state's second carbon permit auction.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 13- Texas Governor Rick Perry's latest sales pitch to California businesses boils down to four words: Texas is no California.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 13- Texas Governor Rick Perry's latest sales pitch to California businesses boils down to four words: Texas is no California.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 8- The state of California will likely sell $7 billion of general obligation bonds this year in two parts, with the first half of the sale in a few months, Treasurer Bill Lockyer told Reuters TV on Friday. California will return to the market in the fall, he added.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 8- The state of California will likely sell $7 billion of general obligation bonds this year in two parts, with the first half of the sale in a few months, Treasurer Bill Lockyer told Reuters TV on Friday. California will return to the market in the fall, he added.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 29- California's governor is betting the wealthy will grow wealthier still to help right his state's finances, a wager that is expected to help the budget in the short term, but leaves it at risk of a revenue slump if assets such as stocks lose value.
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Republican governors are moving to cut income taxes, including proposals that would increase reliance on state sales taxes, setting up ambitious experiments in tax reform that could shape what is possible on a national level.
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*Brown turning his attention to education funding reforms. SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan 24- Governor Jerry Brown, hailing what he described as a hard-fought rebound in California's fortunes, used his annual State of the State address on Thursday to urge fiscal discipline to avoid a return to budget deficits and cycles of "boom and bust."
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*Brown turning his attention to education funding reforms. SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan 24- Governor Jerry Brown, hailing what he described as a hard-fought rebound in California's fortunes, used his annual State of the State address on Thursday to urge fiscal discipline to avoid a return to budget deficits and cycles of "boom and bust."
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan 24- Governor Jerry Brown, hailing what he described as a hard-fought rebound in California's fortunes, used his annual State of the State address on Thursday to urge fiscal discipline to avoid a return to budget deficits and boom-and-bust cycles.
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Jan 22- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed on Tuesday a $136.5 billion state budget for fiscal 2014 that boosts education spending and closes a $1.3 billion gap without raising taxes. The spending plan, which would be a 1.9 percent increase, or $2.5 billion, from the current fiscal year, must be approved by state lawmakers.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 15- The natural gas boom has brought fortune to Wyoming over the last year and lifted its revenues beyond expectations, but in his state of the state address last week, Governor Matt Mead pressed legislators to cut spending by 6 percent.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 14- California's budget watchdog largely commended the first projected surplus in years unveiled by Governor Jerry Brown, saying in a report on Monday that the state's spending and revenue in his budget plan were now "roughly in balance."
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*Surplus seen at $851 million for 2014. *Budget sets aside $1 billion in rainy-day fund. SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan 10- Governor Jerry Brown delivered rare good news on Thursday in his state budget plan, saying California's budget deficit is gone after years of financial troubles as he proposed increased spending on education and healthcare.