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OAKLAND, Calif. Among Poor People’s Campaign supporters gathering at legislative offices around the country June 7, urging lawmakers to back the Campaign’s drive for a Third Reconstruction, were dozens who rallied at U.S. Rep.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom. | Nic Coury / AP
With California’s finances buoyed by unanticipated tax revenues and a $27 billion boost from the American Rescue Plan, Gov. Gavin Newsom on May 14 rolled out a proposed $267.8 billion budget he called “historic” and “transformational,” with infusions of funding for housing, education, healthcare, infrastructure, environmental justice, and immediate relief for families and small businesses.
Incorporating parts of the upcoming 2021-22 budget as well as anticipated spending in future years is the governor’s $100 billion California Comeback Plan, termed “the biggest economic recovery package in California’s history.”
This year’s “May Revise,” updating Newsom’s January budget proposals, reflects an expected $75 billion in tax revenue paid mostly by the state’s high earners. It contrasts sharply with the picture a year ago when in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic a $54 billion budget hole was projected.
California’s new Attorney General, Rob Bonta, took the podium at his first news conference on May 11 to announce the formation of a Racial Justice Bureau, charged with addressing bias and hate “at their roots” and strengthening responses to hate crimes throughout the state.
California s new Attorney General Rob Bonta. | Noah Berger / AP
California’s new Attorney General, Rob Bonta, took the podium at his first news conference on May 11 to announce the formation of a Racial Justice Bureau, charged with addressing bias and hate “at their roots” and strengthening responses to hate crimes throughout the state.
The Bureau, which will initially bring together six new attorneys and a new deputy attorney general as part of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Enforcement Section, comes into being as Californians throughout the state deal with a pandemic-related surge of hate crimes against Asian Americans, white supremacist activity, and repeated instances of police violence.