Kersten Communications

By a vote of 68-29, the Senate passed a $17.6 billion jobs bill, HR 2847, on March 17, 2010, and the President signed it on March 18th. The bill provides payroll tax exemptions to small businesses for hiring new, formerly unemployed, workers, according to the California Institute for Federal Policy Research. It also includes a $1,000 tax credit for small businesses that keep those new workers on their payrolls for… Read More...

David Kersten recently recorded a podcast with Peter B. Collins to discuss PG&E’s Proposition 16.  To hear the podcast click here.

SACRAMENTO – Today Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles), Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), and representatives of California Forward announced a major package of reforms to improve government effectiveness in California, stabilize state finances, increase accountability and enhance public oversight of government operations.

For the past seven months, the Legislature has engaged in a bicameral conversation about reform through the hearings of the Senate and Assembly… Read More...

Kersten Communications (KC) has completed a brief report, titled “PG&E’s Prop. 16 Turns the 100-Year Old Initiative Process on Its Head,” which examines what is wrong with Prop. 16 and how PG&E is using the initiative process to do exactly the opposite of what it was designed to do.  To view the report click here.

Other KC Fiscal Focus Reports: 

“Ballot Measures Qualified for June and

KC Fiscal Focus has produced a brief guide that is intended to help policy makers and community members search for how American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding has been used in their community. 

Specifically, this guide provides instruction on how to search the internet for ARRA funds and projects by county, search for the largest fund recipients, and search by zip codes.

To search ARRA funded projects… Read More...