With interest costs outpacing defense spending, this piece will help journalists understand the public debt and explain it to ...

Were a private corporation to cook its books like the state government does, its executives could wind up in jail for fraud.

The state has adopted the same hide-the-pea approach to budgeting that the federal government employs, one that has resulted in trillions of debt.

Fairness, particularly distributive justice, is jeopardized as marginalized communities, often overrepresented in public data ...

If approved by California lawmakers, government spending will exceed revenues by $21 billion in 2025-26 fiscal year.

If we want local food systems to thrive, every link in the chain must be nurtured: seeds must be saved, farmers must earn a ...

Back in the days, before child labor laws were introduced and before it became conventional wisdom that no young person could develop proper character ...

Legislative leaders would have us believe that the 2025-26 budget agreement they forged with Gov. Gavin Newsom this week is a noteworthy — even heroic — response to financial problems caused by ...

The probability of any American having dementia in their lifetime may be far greater than previously thought. For instance, a ...

Finally, it feels like, for the first time in my memory, there’s momentum around finding funding source for fixing the damn ...

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