Opinion: Health, Welfare Vie With Education for Funding
Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Walters argues that the economic recession and the state budget deficit once again pit health and welfare services against education. He concludes, "Without adding more taxes to those already enacted -- and that's a virtual impossibility -- the Legislature's liberal Democrats will be compelled to slash tens of billions of dollars from schools and health and welfare programs in the days ahead," adding, "Their only issue, really, is how to allocate the pain."
- "Dan Walters: California's Health-Welfare Services Vie With Education" (Walters, Sacramento Bee, 6/2).