California tightens belt amid $7 billion Property tax cut
Sacramento grapples with a voter driven tax cut of 7 billion dollars. Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. orders hiring freezes and plans budget cuts across schools, police, fire and labor with up to 85 percent revenue losses for some districts. Lawsuits challenge 57 percent property tax cuts and mass layoffs loom.
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Sacramento
Calif
California
Edmund Brown Jr
California Federation of Teachers
The
California Teachers Association
California State Council of Service Employees
Wilson Riles
Los Angeles
Tom Bradley
Brown
Illinois House rejects ERA in pivotal vote
Illinois lawmakers defeat the Equal Rights Amendment 101 to 64, leaving the state as the only northern industrial state not yet to ratify. The setback ends a key year in the national drive with ERA supporters vowing future efforts, while anti ERA forces celebrate the setback.
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Springfield
Ill
Illinois
ERA
Carter
Dawn Clark Netsch
Chicago
Mildred Jeffrey
National Womens Political Caucus
Washington
Phyllis Schlafly
Alton
ERA Era
Arthur Gottschalk
ERA Illinois League Women Voters
Black Caucus
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Jerry Brown
Howard Jarvis
Raymond Ewell
Legislative Black Caucus
Bismarck
Hood
North Atlantic
Hills
Timex
Rubbermaid
Middletown
Middletown Hills Plaza
South
Breiel Boulevard