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173 "California doesn't actually have permanent funding for school repairs, so it's another bond. One for $15 million in 2020 failed. One for in $9 million in 2016 passed, but that money has almost entirely been spent.",
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179 description:
180 "Of course, this is already legal in California, but there is still an old ballot prop on the books— Proposition 8 that passed in 2008 — that defined marriage as between a man a woman. Some suspect this is a preventative measure should the Supreme Court roll back same-sex marriage the way they did abortion.",
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186 description:
187 "Wildfires? Check Drought? Check Floods? Check — Just about every climate disaster, California's got 'em. This handsome chunk of change would be spent preventative projects for all of that.",
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193 description:
194 "Usually they want it to build things like affordable housing. But voters must approve these measures by 2/3s majority. Prop 5 would lower that threshold to 55%. Vote for easier voting… in a way.",
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200 description:
201 "If this sounds like slavery, well many argue it is. Legislators considered a similar measure in 2022, but it tanked once it was estimated it would cost $1.5 billion annually to pay California's 90,000 inmates minimum wage. This ballot prop proposes a voluntary work program to get around that issue",
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207 description:
208 "California was the first in the nation to raise the minimum wage to $15 in 2022. Will we keep the title this year?",
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213 title: "allows cities to impose whatever types of rent control they like",
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220 description:
221 "That's right. This prop would only affect one organization. And the main reason — it wants it to stop spending money on other props. It's complicated, and amazingly petty.",
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227 description:
228 "A third of the state uses the low-income program. The entire healthcare industry supports this. Newsome said he would do it, but is now back-tracking. This would hold him to his word.",
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234 description:
235 "Ten years ago, these were felonies and voters approved a prop that would make them misdemeanors. Now, post covid, post doom loop, many want to change it back.",
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