California Is The First Failed State

• Volume 34, Presented On: January 18, 2010
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From the Panel

• Andreas Kluth

• The Ungovernable State
  Andreas Kluth, Economist, May 14, 2009

• Van Jones

• Greening the Ghetto
  Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, January 12, 2009
• Interview with Van Jones, Special Advisor on Green Jobs to the White House
  Washington Post, Staff Writer, Washington Post August 10, 2009
• The Van Jones Matter
  Charles Krauthammer, Chicago Tribune, September 14, 2009
• Meet the Real Van Jones
  Mortimer Judith Lewis, Cap Times, September 15, 2009

Related Articles

• California is a Failed State

• Failed State
  William Voegeli, Claremont Review of Books, December 17, 2009
• What Happens When California Defaults?
  Bill Watkins, Newgeography.com, December 16, 2009
• End State
  John B. Judis, New Republic, October 26, 2009
• Will California become America’s first failed state?
  Paul Harris, Observer, October 4, 2009
• Who Killed California?
  Troy Senik, National Affairs, Fall, 2009
• Greetings from California: Letter from a State in Crisis
  Marc Cooper, The Nation, August 17, 2009
• Who Killed California’s Economy?
  Joel Kotkin, Forbes, July 7, 2009
• No More California Dreamin’
  Caille Millner, San Francisco Chronicle, June 1, 2009
• Failed State
  Robert Kuttner, Prospect, October 9, 2003

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• California is Thriving

• Why California is Still America's Future
  Michael Grunwald, TIME, October 23, 2009
• California’s deficit of common sense
  Rebecca Solnit, LA Times, November 1, 2009

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• Climate Change/Green Jobs

• Decade of Crisis Obscured Gains in the ‘Green’ Sector
  F. Noel Perry, Sacramento Bee, December 27, 2009
• Green jobs Just 1% of Total in California
  David R. Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, December 9, 2009
• Recyclers Close, Eliminating 'Green' Jobs
  Shane Goldmacher, Los Angeles Times ,November 30, 2009
• California Takes Step to Limit Emissions
  John M. Broder, New York Times
• The California Experiment
  Ronald Brownstein, Atlantic, October, 2009
• Governor Schwarzenegger Signs Executive Order to Advance State’s Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard to 33 Percent by 2020
  Office of the Governor of California, September 15, 2009

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• Budget

• Schwarzenegger Seeks U.S. Funds
  Stu Woo and Jim Carlton, Wall Street Journal, January 7, 2010
• A New York Solution for Bailing Out California
  Henry S. Rowen, Wall Street Journal, July 8, 2009
• Why Obama Has to Bail Out California, But Won’t
  Ron Elving, NPR, June 23, 2009
• California Bailout, Impossible or Inevitable?
  New York Times, June 21, 2009
• California to Feds: Drop Dead
  Joe Mathews, New America Foundation, June 18, 2009
• Calif. Aid Request Spurned by U.S.
  David Cho, Brady Dennis and Karl Vick, Washington Post, June 16,

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• Bailout

• Washington Declines to Help California, at least for Now
  Peter Nicholas and Richard Simon, LA Times, May 22, 2009
• In the State of the State Address, Arnold Schwarzenegger Unveils an Ambitious Wish List
  Michael Rothfeld, LA Times, January 7, 2010
• Schwarzenegger Urges Fiscal Reform in Final Year
  Associated Press, January 6, 2010
• California Will Face Deeper Fiscal Pain, More Budget Cuts in 2010 as Recession Keeps its Grip
  Judy Lin, Associated Press, January 2, 2010
• California Debt Costs to Surpass $10 Billion-Treasurer
  Reuters, December 14, 2009
• California’s Fiscal Health Continues to Deteriorate, Despite Many Deep Cuts
  Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times, October 31, 2009
• California Puts Crisis Aside with $8.8bn Debt Sale
  Nicole Bullock, Financial Times, September 24, 2009
• California to Stop Issuing IOUs as State Budget Stabilizes
  Juliet Williams, Associated Press, August 13, 2009
• State budget gap deeps $2 billion overnight
  Matthew Yi, San Francisco Chronicle, July 2, 2009

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• Budget Cuts

• Cuts in California
  The New York Times, January 7, 2010
• Dry Coffers Can Mean Fires that Burn Longer
  Dan Barry, New York Times, December 17, 2009
• Educators Have the Wrong Number in Answering Budget Crisis
  Steve Lopez, LA Times, December 6, 2009
• College Crisis is a Disaster California Can’t Afford
  Dean Calbreath, San Diego Union-Tribune, November 15, 2009
• Experts Laud Schwarzenegger’s Plan to Shift Prison Funds to Universities
  Charles Piller, Sacramento Bee, January 7, 2010
• Prison Overcrowding a Crisis in California
  Howard Mintz, San Jose Mercury News, September 13, 2009
• California Legislature OKs State Prison Cuts
  Shane Goldmacher and Patrick McGreevy, LA Times, September 12, 2009
• State Avoids Shutting More Than a Third of Its Parks
  Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times, September 25, 2009

• California Budget Project

• Uncharted Waters: Navigating the Social and Economic Context of California’s Budget
  The California Budget Project, May, 2009

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• Public Policy Institute of California

• Are California’s Fiscal Constraints Institutional or Political?
  Bruce E. Cain and George A. Mackenzie, Public Policy Institute of California, December, 2008

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• Possible Solutions

• Call the Constitutional Convention
  Jim Wunderman, San Francisco Chronicle, November 15, 2009
• A Smart Convention Plan
  Los Angeles Times, January 3, 2010
• What Will Happen to California?
  Pete Golis, Press Democrat, October 11, 2009
• California Forward 2010 Reform Principles
  California Forward, August 26, 2010
• Getting Past the Extremes in California's Budget Battle
  Dan Schnur, Los Angeles Times, May 22, 2009
• Budgets by the People, for the People
  Chris Elmendorf and Ehtan J. Leib, New York Times, July 27, 2009

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• Briefs: PPIC & PEW

• Are the Rich Leaving California?
  Public Policy Institute of California, July, 2009
• The California Economy: Housing Market Update
  Public Policy Institute of California, August, 2009
• California Voter and Party Profiles
  Public Policy Institute of California, September, 2009
• California Budget
  Public Policy Institute of California, June, 2010
• California Economy
  Public Policy Institute of California, June, 2010
• California Education
  Public Policy Institute of California, June, 2010
• California Population
  Public Policy Institute of California, June, 2010
• California Water
  Public Policy Institute of California, June, 2010
• California Climate Change
  Public Policy Institute of California, June, 2010
• California Transportation
  Public Policy Institute of California, June, 2010
• The Clean Energy Economy California
  The Pew Charitable Trusts, June, 2009
• 1 in 31: The Long Reach of American Corrections – California
  The Pew Charitable Trusts, March, 2009
• California Pensions
  The Pew Charitable Trusts, March, 2009

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• Water

• State Clears Major Water Hurdle
  Mike Taugher, Contra Costa Times, November 5, 2009
• California Water Overhaul Caps Used
  Jennifer Steinhauer, The New York Times, November 5, 2009

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• Miscellaneous

• California’s Unemployment Rate Shrinks – But So Do the Number of Jobs
  Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times, December 19, 2009
• Don’t Follow California’s Path to Ruin
  David Ignatius, Washington Post, January 3, 2010
• Top Judge Calls Calif. Government ‘Dysfunctional’
  Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times, October 10, 2009
• L.A. Budget Deal Threatens to Unravel
  Phil Willon and David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, August 16, 2009
• The Problem with California
  Peter Robinson, Forbes, May 29, 2009
• California Exports Rise for Second Straight Month
  San Francisco Chronicle, December 11, 2009
• What’s at Stake for California?
  U.S. Department of Agriculture, September, 2009
• The Cost of Doing Business Puts State at a Disadvantage
  Perry Wong and Kevin Klowden, Sacramento Bee, July 19, 2009
• California on Junk Watch
  Andrew Ward, IDD, July 2009
• One Vote by California Legislator Illustrates Fractured State Republican Party
  Michael Leahy, Washington Post, December 14, 2009

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• Other Troubled States

• Beyond California: States in Fiscal Peril
  The Pew Charitable Trusts, November 2009
• State of Fear
  Eliot Spitzer, Slate, July 13, 2009