California Budget Effects on Human Services

The California Budget Project, a nonpartisan fiscal and policy analysis group, has released a new chartbook showing how recent funding cuts and policy changes that affect safety-net programs for low-income and vulnerable Californians.
An Overview of Recent Cuts to California’s Safety Net

A separate report provides further details of all 2009-10 California state budget actions affecting human services. This analysis is insightful in showing how the budget changed from the Governor’s May budget proposal to the Legislature’s Conference Committee proposal to the final adopted budget (including the effect of all of the Governor’s line item vetoes).

How Do the Budgets Compare?:A Comparison of the Governor’s May Proposals,the Budget Conference Committee’s Proposals,and the July Budget Agreement, August 2009