Health Care Taking Up a Bigger Chunk of Budget, Report Finds
Health care and public employees' salaries and retirement benefits are taking up a larger proportion of the state budget, according to a report released Tuesday by California Common Sense, a nonpartisan research group at Stanford University. The report found that that state health care programs saw the biggest increase in spending, growing from 13% to 20% of the state budget in the past six years.
- "California Budget Increasingly Goes to Salaries, Health Care, Report Says" (Megerian, "PolitiCal," Los Angeles Times, 2/19).