California voters will decide in November 2026 whether to impose the nation's first significant wealth tax on the state's ...

Besides education, up to $2 billion would be directed to children's health care. Higher education would benefit, too, since ...

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A coalition led by a major California union is pushing a new ballot initiative that would impose a one-time 5 percent tax on the state’s billionaires, aimed at filling a projected shortfall in federal ...

California billionaires would face a one-time 5% tax on their wealth through a ballot initiative that advocates say could bring in about $100 billion to cover state health-care costs. The proposed ...

When you're living on a fixed income, every dollar matters. Retirees often find themselves looking harder at expenses they once overlooked, and taxes can quickly become one of the biggest line items.

The debate over billionaire taxes always comes back to the same question: What if the ultra-wealthy paid taxes at the same rate as regular people? I asked ChatGPT to crunch the numbers on what would ...

California’s birth rate has hit a record low, a historic “baby bust” in a state with the world’s fourth largest economy, dipping below the birth rate of 1906, when San Francisco was recovering from ...

California tied with Louisiana for having the highest poverty rate in the country. Census Bureau figures showed the state's Supplemental Poverty Measure stood at 17.7% in 2024. That's about 7 million ...

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