
Teaching Climate Change: Many middle school science standards don’t explicitly mention climate change. On Tuesday, he plans to take his plain black clerical suit - no cassock or robe - on the road to Albany for one last push before the state’s April 1 budget deadline. Supporters say the bill would help public schools struggling to keep class sizes down, parochial schools that have been losing students for years and students who cannot afford private school tuition.Ĭardinal Dolan has spoken and blogged on the topic and batted “cleanup,” as he put it, at crowded rallies around New York to support the proposal. That is a far more lucrative benefit than the deduction that now exists for such contributions. The proposal, called the education investment tax credit, would create a generous new state tax credit for individuals and corporations who donate money to public schools, or to scholarship programs that help poor and middle-class students attend private schools, including religious ones. "It's definitely going to alleviate the pain for a lot of people.A proposal to create a state tax credit for donations to public schools and nonprofit scholarship funds is gathering steam in Albany and turning the archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy M. "I think a lot of this relief package makes sense, because it's lower income families who are spending a bigger portion of their money on rent, gas, groceries, and transit," Ding said. Kai Ding, a professor of economics at Cal State University East Bay, thinks the relief package will help ease the burden of inflation and high gas prices for many families, especially lower-income families. Once you deal with that, the prices will start coming down again." You've got to deal with the supply issues," said Millbrae resident Ramiro Cruz. "Putting more money in people's pockets is going to make the problem worse, because you've got more money, people trying to buy more stuff, and the prices are still going to go up.
I guess that would help some people out that need it," said San Mateo resident Greg Bryant.īut others said they don't think it will actually solve the problems everyone is dealing with. Some people in the Bay Area tell KPIX 5 they think the relief will be much needed for some people.
"Senate Republicans believe there is a better way to invest in the state," said Sen. "People are feeling deep stress, deep anxiety," he said. Newsom said one of his top budget priorities is providing Californians relief from inflation. They have until the end of June to finalize the budget, which takes effect July 1. He'll have to reach agreement with the Democratic-led legislature on all of his proposals. Gavin Newsom unveils his 2022-2023 state budget revision during a news conference in Sacramento, Friday, May 13, 2022. He plans additional spending to tackle the ongoing drought, to help more women get abortions in California and to offset rising costs of food, gas and other goods due to inflation. That means Newsom, a Democrat, has tens of billions of dollars more to spend on new and existing initiatives as he seeks re-election in the fall. The state has collected $55 billion more in taxes than officials expected in January, leaving it with an estimated $97.5 billion surplus. Newsom unveiled a revised budget plan of just over $300 billion for the next fiscal year, the highest in state history and fueled by surging tax revenues. SACRAMENTO - California is entering the next budget year with a record-smashing surplus of nearly $100 billion, Gov.