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Editorial: Don't Raise Bar for State Tax Increases | Minneapolis Star Tribune

September 6, 2011

The supermajority requirement was a key reason for years of fiscal gridlock and mounting state debt, conclude researchers Mark Paul and Joe Mathews, whose 2010 book, "California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It," ...

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Highest State Salaries Hidden in Special Funds | The Orange County Register

September 4, 2011

“The winners are the people that can get out of the General Fund or can get special protection within the General Fund,” said Joe Mathews, Irvine senior fellow at the New America Foundation and co-author of “California Crack Up: How Reform Broke the ...

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Viewpoints: For Job Creation, Don't Count on Government | Sacramento Bee

September 3, 2011

"There is no single company in California that's more important to the California economy than Apple," Joe Mathews, a journalist and Irvine senior fellow at the New America Foundation, told NBC. Steve Jobs has shown how free market capitalism – not ...

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POLITICO Arena: California Immigration Rules Humane or Destructive?

  • By
  • Joe Mathews,
  • New America Foundation
September 2, 2011 |

The fact that this question is being asked speaks volumes about Washington's self-destructive mindset, and says very little about California. The state is merely acting in its own economic interest. California is required to support the K-12 educations of all students, even undocumented ones. So why waste that investment by making it impossible for them to attend college?

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Budget Panel OKs Wolk Budget Reform | Daily Democrat

August 31, 2011

... Reforms such as those implemented by SB 14 and SB 15 that would empower the public by improving public oversight and increasing government accountability were overwhelmingly supported by participants in the "What's Next California" Poll, conducted in June by groups including California Forward, the Public Policy Institute of California, the New America Foundation, and Stanford University. ...

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One Small Good Seed, Buried By Democrats’ Bad Initiative Deed

  • By
  • Joe Mathews
August 30, 2011

(originally published at Fox & Hounds Daily)
If Democrats want to win 2/3 of the legislature, they should start acting like a party you might trust with 2/3 of the legislature.

If they ever want to fix the governing system of California to restore majority accountability, they should start acting like people you would trust to reform the governing system.

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Let’s Power Our Laptops with Kitty Litter

  • By
  • Lisa Margonelli,
  • New America Foundation
August 30, 2011 |

Optimism about technology is more or less a California trait, but it requires some discipline.

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Rick Perry, No Stranger to California Republicans

August 30, 2011

Why Californians Should Care About Steve Jobs' Resignation | NBC San Diego

August 27, 2011

“There is no single company in California that's more important to the California economy than apple,” said Joe Mathews, the lead blogger for Prop Zero. To put that into perspective, think about this. The agricultural industry in California, ...

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What's Next for California?

  • By
  • Elizabeth Wu
August 26, 2011

The Golden State not only faces unprecedented demographic and economic changes, but does so with a governance system that is fundamentally broken, and arguably incapable of implementing the policy reforms that are so clearly needed. Recognizing this, the New America Foundation joined the What's Next California coalition to convene a deliberative poll with a scientifically selected random sample of California's registered voters.

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