California is cutting essential child care, climate innovation and jobs, while the corrections budget, which is operating at 20+% capacity surplus, is remaining largely intact. #CABudget #MayRevise #ClosePrisonsSaveBillions

In a time when our social safety net faces billions in cuts, why does CDCR's budget remain virtually untouchable? #ClosePrisonsSaveBillions

Must read op-ed by public health experts Health in Partnership on cuts to vital services in the #CABudget: "Amid billions of cuts to vital social safety nets—healthcare, public health, housing, climate justice, and workforce development—CDCR’s budget remains largely untouched. Why

In light of all the baseball stats news, I would like to repeat that Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is one of the best museums I've ever visited.

Why cut services when there are prisons that can safely close? During next year's budget cycle, the Governor's plan calls for reducing the Department of Health Care Services budget by $3.2 billion, which is around the same size as the GDP of Belize. #CloseCAPrisons #CABudget

"Unfortunately, the [proposed] cuts will do very little to shore up the long-term fiscal health of the state." - Joshua Rauh Los Angeles Times Prison closure is the only way to ensure reductions to CDCR's budget‼️ #ClosePrisonsSaveBillions #CABudget latimes.com/opinion/story/…

We've said it once and we'll say it again - closing more prisons is THE way to ensure cuts to CDCR's budget are realized. Governor Gavin Newsom can and must commit to closing at least 5 more prisons, starting with CRC Norco. #ClosePrisonsSaveBillions #CABudget calmatters.org/politics/capit…

With #CABudget deliberations still underway, it's important to remember that more prison closures are the only way we can truly ensure cuts to CDCR's massive budget are realized. It's time for resources to go to our communities not wasteful prisons! #ClosePrisonsSaveBillions

Please, we are 129 years old #NoCutsToLibraries

I need y'all to understand something: This isn't Willie Mays. This isn't Satchel Paige. This isn't Josh Gibson. This is REGGIE JACKSON. HE PLAYED WHEN I WAS A KID in the 70s and 80s. THIS. IS. RECENT.

ACLU SoCal Vera Institute of Justice Check out the Vera Institute of Justice dashboard which shows weekly population changes in the jails and breaks down how overall decarceration, among other changes in the County, would allow for MCJ to be closed: vera.org/carefirstla

My piece in The Atlantic today: Break Up Big Econ The economics profession has become insular and status-obsessed, and not focused enough on making a positive impact on the world. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

“This is the beginning of a shift in politics that puts equity up front, providing opportunity, equality, and inclusion.” Watch the trailer for our new Budget Equity Project tracking equitable #ARPA investments of cities and counties across the nation. vimeo.com/1010049175

This week, as we gear up for our grassroots assembly, we’re inspired by our partners National Youth Justice Network and Coalition for Juvenile Justice! Watch Ep. 2 of their #YOUthAreWorthIt video series in honor of #YJAM to hear how youth justice is reimagining community safety youtu.be/0IDWU_gRpYc

No more searching for how to cancel your subscriptions. Today, the FTC finalized a "Click-to-Cancel" rule to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up for one. Thank you, @linakhanFTC!

⏮California risks taking a BIG step backwards towards more incarceration with Proposition 36. Check out the new briefing from Prison Policy Initiative on the impacts of #Prop36 and why Californians should reject it this fall! 📲Read more here: prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/10/1… #NoOnProp36

Another Lina Khan win. No one has done more in the last four years to show how government can make people's lives better.

As the City of LA goes broke, one of the many questions we get is: "WHERE ARE OUR TAX DOLLARS GOING?" 🤔 The City just started a new fiscal year & if you want to know how the Mayor & a majority of City Council increased or decreased departments' operational budget, see below:

Right now, more than 650,000 people are locked up in jail. Most of them have not been tried in court and are legally innocent. So much for the 'land of the free.'

“The issue is not that deliverism failed. It is that Democrats convinced themselves that they had delivered, without listening to the voters telling them they had not.”