http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Fri, 17 May 2013 21:06:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://igs.berkeley.edu/news/the-latest-trend-from-california-how-to-sell-a-tax-hike http://igs.berkeley.edu/news/the-latest-trend-from-california-how-to-sell-a-tax-hike#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:03:32 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33852 In what even Republicans have called a "coup," Gov. Jerry Brown’s Prop. 30, a California initiative to raise taxes by roughly $6 billion a year, won with 55 percent of the vote in the November 2012 election. Berkeley's Ethan Rarick analyzes that rare accomplishment — selling a tax hike — in "Policy Options Journal." ]]> http://igs.berkeley.edu/news/the-latest-trend-from-california-how-to-sell-a-tax-hike/feed/ 0 http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/25770 http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/25770#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:58:36 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=13046 California Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed a state spending plan that would have deepened the cut in financial support for UC by another $150 million for the coming fiscal year. Brown said the proposal sent to him by the Legislature was not a "balanced solution" for ending California's long-term fiscal crisis. ]]> http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/25770/feed/ 0