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Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles) and Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) today announced an updated Jobs Budget proposal to close the state’s budget deficit while protecting jobs and preventing layoffs that would push California’s unemployment above 14 percent. The proposal advanced by Steinberg and Pérez also includes elements to spur the state’s economic recovery and reforms to help prevent future budget problems.

SACRAMENTO – Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles) and Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) today announced an updated Jobs Budget proposal to close the state’s budget deficit while protecting jobs and preventing layoffs that would push California’s unemployment above 14 percent. The proposal advanced by Steinberg and Pérez also includes elements to spur the state’s economic recovery and reforms to help prevent future budget problems.

Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles) and Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) today announced an updated Jobs Budget proposal to close the state’s budget deficit while protecting jobs and preventing layoffs that would push California’s unemployment above 14 percent. The proposal advanced by Steinberg and Pérez also includes elements to spur the state’s economic recovery and reforms to help prevent future budget problems.

Dropping the state’s Welfare-to-Work program and subsidized child care will put more than 200,000 Californians out of work, according to testimony heard in the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee. In testimony before the committee, witnesses estimated more than 100,000 parents will lose the child care they need to continue working, while another 130,000 child care providers and workers will lose their jobs if the Governor’s May Revise proposal is approved. The programs provide various levels of subsidized child care for as many as 240,000 children.