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- California: Failed State http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1650/article_detail.asp 27 comments
- Will California become America's first failed state? http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/04/california-failing-state-debt 86 comments
- 97% of California Cities Failed to Meet State Housing Goals https://www.thebaycitybeacon.com/politics/of-california-cities-failed-to-meet-state-housing-goals-and/article_a609ae5e-09d7-11e8-a94e-3b67baeaae8b.html 180 comments
- California Is A Failed State http://www.businessinsider.com/california-is-a-failed-state-2011-5 5 comments politics
- Will California become America's first failed state? http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/04/california-failing-state-debt 8 comments politics
- Will California become America's first failed state? http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/04/california-failing-state-debt 6 comments economy
- Gas tax suspension proposal fails in California State Assembly https://www.cbs8.com/article/traffic/gas-prices/california-republican-gas-tax-suspension/103-b499114e-b337-4404-aba6-c32c55a32561 4 comments politics
- Texas Froze. California Baked. The Power Failed Because Both States Failed to Plan https://www.kqed.org/science/1972802/texas-froze-california-baked-the-power-failed-because-both-states-failed-to-plan 49 comments politics
- California lawmakers have tried for 50 years to fix the state's housing crisis. Here's why they've failed http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-housing-supply/ 37 comments politics
- Plan to divide California into six states fails to qualify for ballot http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/12/us-usa-california-breakup-iduskbn0h72ls20140912?feedtype=rss&feedname=politicsnews 18 comments politics
- Ballot initiative to split California into 6 states fails to qualify for November 2016 ballot http://bigstory.ap.org/article/six-californias-initiative-fails-2016-ballot 12 comments politics
- Proposal to split California into six states fails to make it onto ballot http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/09/12/proposal-to-split-california-into-six-states-fails-to-make-it-onto-ballot/ 5 comments politics
- Wall Street Greed: Too Big to Prosecute? "United States Attorney General Eric Holder has declared that the too-big-to-fail Wall Street banks are too big to prosecute. But an outraged California jury might have different ideas..." http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/24/wall-street-greed/ 211 comments politics
- California Figured Out How To Make Democracy Work Again. Just three years ago, California was billed a “failed state.” Now it seems they have democracy figured out more than Washington does. How California beat gridlock. http://www.buzzfeed.com/hunterschwarz/california-figured-out-how-to-make-democracy-work-again 1624 comments politics
- Families allege California is failing to educate poor, minority students during pandemic (I see the school districts and the state doing all they can, with what they have.) https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/528120-families-allege-california-is-failing-to-educate-poor-minority 10 comments politics
- California Governor Gavin Newsom Failed To Take Promised Pay Cut After Cutting State Workers’ Pay By 10 Percent https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/california-governor-gavin-newsom-failed-161034866.html 10 comments politics
- Inside the Fight to Forcibly Out Transgender Students in California | Even in a blue state where anti-trans education bills have failed, local extremists have found ways to target trans students. https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7znqe/california-transgender-school-board-forced-outing 31 comments politics
- EPA: California failed to spend $455M of federal money meant to improve water infrastructure in the state, while thousands of people rely on groundwater laced with nitrates and other contaminants http://www.sfgate.com/news/medical/article/epa-calif-failed-to-spend-455m-on-water-projects-4448115.php 5 comments politics
- Marijuana Legalization Supporters to Try Again in California .. Supporters of last November's failed Prop 19 in California, the marijuana legalization ballot measure, have formed a new committee to try to put another measure on the state ballot in 2012 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/03/new-medical-marijuana-initiative-in-california.html 171 comments politics
- During the recent epic California budget impasse, Republican legislators lobbied to let the state fall into bankruptcy. We should stop electing leaders bent on proving government can only fail. http://calbuzzer.blogspot.com/2009/03/abel-maldonado-republicans-urged.html 6 comments politics
- SCOTUS Makes It Official: California A Failed State .. Let there be no mistake: when you produce so many criminals that you can’t afford to lock them up, you are a failed state. Virtually every important civil institution in society has to fail to get you to this point. http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/05/27/scotus-makes-it-official-california-a-failed-state/ 28 comments politics
- CalWORKs will reduce welfare if parents don't prove their kids are vaccinated: "Welfare advocacy groups have not raised any objections to CalWORKs' approach to the vaccination issue. California is one of two dozen states that cut welfare benefits to families that fail to submit immunization records" http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/04/13/50940/calworks-will-reduce-welfare-if-parents-don-t-get/ 14 comments politics
- A long-shot effort to break California into six separate states failed to collect enough signatures to put it on the November 2016 ballot, state officials said on Friday, as the group behind the plan criticized the rejection. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/12/us-usa-california-breakup-iduskbn0h72ls20140912 3 comments politics
- New letter from EPA to California stating "the EPA is concerned that California's implementation of federal environmental laws is failing to meet its obligations required under delegated federal programs." https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/1854-epa-letter-to-california/5bea05fe6a916e64e079/optimized/full.pdf#page=1 13 comments law
- A state court in California has granted class certification to nearly 21,000 current and former Apple employees over claims that the company failed to provide timely meal and rest breaks as required by the law, and sometimes denied workers rest breaks altogether. http://articles2.factspocket.com/2014/07/apple-case-over-labor-code-is-granted.html 16 comments business