“The reason that I, as the committee chair, was willing to have a portion of SB 230 move forward is because if we do revise our use of force standard, then we will require new training,” said Sen. Nancy Skinner...
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A new bill sponsored by state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, offers a bold new vision to address these root causes. SB 330 would take away the many tools used by the state’s affluent communities to exclude newcomers.
“Regular Californians face the fourth-largest income inequality gap between the super-rich and the average resident...
Calif. lawmakers propose taxing wealthiest corporations to pay for public schools to generate $5B/yr
Fresh off teachers’ strikes in Los Angeles and Oakland, three East Bay lawmakers are hoping to drum up money from the nation’s largest corporations who do business in California to generate billions more for K-12 schools, community colleges and early childhood education — while also helping reduce the state’s income-inequality gap.
“Regular Californians face the fourth-largest income inequality gap between the super-rich and the average resident,” Skinner said, referring to a ranking of U.S. inequality. “Meanwhile, we struggle to fund our schools, to fund essential services, and many Californians struggle to make ends meet."
Citing a tax windfall that major corporations received through President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax law, California Democrats on Monday unveiled a plan to levy a steep tax hike on the state’s most profitable businesses.
Companies making the most money and paying their top management the biggest salaries would pay a lot more in taxes to help fund public schools if two Bay Area legislators have their way.
“In watching this debate nationally for the last three, four years, the momentum for this type of change has been building,” California state senator Nancy Skinner, a Democrat, told SB Nation.