{"id":13307,"date":"2011-03-24T22:07:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T22:07:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-03-25T00:05:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T00:05:53","slug":"brown-signs-ugly-cuts-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/24\/brown-signs-ugly-cuts-package\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown Signs Ugly Cuts Package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we knew this was coming, but now it&#8217;s happened. &nbsp;Democrats have just passed a series of massive, and heartbreaking, cuts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gov. Jerry Brown today signed bills making billions of cuts in California&#8217;s budget, raising community college fees and slicing support for the developmentally disabled and mentally ill.<\/p>\n<p>The package raises community college fees from $26 per unit to $36 per unit and defers $2.1 billion in payments to K-12 schools to 2012-13.(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2011\/03\/jerry-brown-oks-billion-in-budget-cuts.html#ixzz1HYMuIQQA\">SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The package cuts a bit over $8 billion, so there is still a long way to go before the budget is in order. &nbsp;But, hooray, now we have cut from education and the social safety net. I&#8217;m sure Grover Norquist is happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we knew this was coming, but now it&#8217;s happened. &nbsp;Democrats have just passed a series of massive, and heartbreaking, cuts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gov. Jerry Brown today signed bills making billions of cuts in California&#8217;s budget, raising community college fees and slicing support for the developmentally disabled and mentally ill.<\/p>\n<p>The package raises community college fees from $26 per unit to $36 per unit and defers $2.1 billion in payments to K-12 schools to 2012-13.(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2011\/03\/jerry-brown-oks-billion-in-budget-cuts.html#ixzz1HYMuIQQA\">SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The package cuts a bit over $8 billion, so there is still a long way to go before the budget is in order. &nbsp;But, hooray, now we have cut from education and the social safety net. I&#8217;m sure Grover Norquist is happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[117,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-117","category-204"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3sD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}