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Day 5: Green state chokes off its middle class
For all the bed-wetting environmentalists do over how climate change might affect the present ecosystems of California, they always seem to conveniently forget what the state looked like before it joined the Union. Last of a five-part series.
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Day 4: California's green jobs bust
Fourth of a five-part series. It was supposed to be the next big thing. California built decades of broad-based prosperity from the Gold Rush, then Hollywood, then aerospace, and later Silicon Valley. At the turn of the century, "green jobs" were supposed to be the wave of the future....
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Day 3: California's expensive education failure
California is already failing its children. And it wasn't always this way.
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Day 2: The California spending rush
California's budget is balanced ... or at least that is what Gov. Jerry Brown wants you to believe, now that he "temporarily" hiked taxes on all Californians by $6.8 billion last year. Part 2 of our five-part series.
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Day 1: What happened to the Golden State?
California is no longer a model that other states want to or should emulate. It currently has the nation's third highest unemployment rate, its highest poverty rate and more than one-third of the nation's welfare recipients. What happened?
