Just under a week before the constitutional deadline, Governor Brown and the Legislature have reached agreement on the state budget for the 2016-2017 fiscal year. Among the notable features is the abolishment of a two-decade rule that has prohibited increases in welfare payments for any child born into a family that had been receiving aid for at least the 10 previous months. Nevada County Child Support Services Director Tex Ritter says the rule was not working…
Ritter says the rule has mostly just hurt poor families, financially…
The new state budget also includes more money to help pay for minimum wage increases for child care providers, as well as some additional preschool slots.
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