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✨JUST RELEASED✨ 🆕 #PPICsurvey: With the primaries a week away, Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton lead #CAgovenor’s race. Also, views on the billionaire wealth tax (majorities approve), the Iran war, + more.

Full report ⬇️ https://t.co/cwtSIKd3SN

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This will be on the test. ✏️ Affordability. Campus capacity. Complex funding. + more. We've got the cheat sheet on everything CA's next governor needs to know about #highered 👇 https://t.co/eOk51RlUAk

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🔸ICYMI🔸 Last week's analyses: #K12 enrollment trends for multilingual students, how Californians want to fix the state budget, what the next governor should know about CA's #SafetyNet, and a recap of @PPICWater's tribal water rights briefing.

More: https://t.co/YrufQBILrG

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California's '26-'27 budget cleared the #CAleg this week—but key negotiations with the governor remain unfinished. What do Californians actually want when it comes to tackling the state budget? We dug into the latest #PPICsurvey data to find out 👇 https://t.co/OcZtZ6oFDn

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New @PPICNotes blog on how Californians want to address future budgets. Nearly half want to address deficits through a mix of spending cuts & tax increases & nearly 7 in 10 favor increasing the share of revenues that can be deposited into Rainy Day Fund.
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As the "Billionaires Tax" is likely headed to the ballot—unless there's a compromise—our May @PPICNotes survey found most likely voters favor the citizens’ initiative that would impose a one-time tax of up to 5% on taxpayers & trusts with covered assets valued over $1 billion.

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NEXT THURSDAY: Join us for a virtual briefing on a report that provides new information about the employment histories of people who were released from California prisons between 2015 and 2019.

Learn more and register: https://t.co/USCjCjC2ka

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🆕 Our new report provides previously unavailable data on employment before, during, and after incarceration for people released from state prisons between 2015 and 2019, highlighting where improvement is needed.

Full report: https://t.co/2Lml9DyoWL

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What stood out in California's June primary? One notable finding from our analysis: turnout as a share of the population eligible to vote was higher this cycle (34%) than in any midterm primary since 1982.

See what else the data show 👇 https://t.co/x670LuxJtg

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With the governor's race set, whoever takes the helm will inherit a social safety net under serious strain. Federal cuts to CalFresh—which keeps nearly 1M Californians out of poverty—have major implications for the state. Our latest blog breaks it down 👇 https://t.co/MntFPjhQrt

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CA's #governor's race is set: Democrat @XavierBecerra and Republican @SteveHiltonx will face off in November. Whoever wins will inherit no shortage of challenges. Our blog series breaks down the major issues awaiting the next governor 👇 https://t.co/15Jcfkpnvz

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What can California learn from its recent literacy initiatives? Our new policy brief explores what’s working, what isn’t, and where policymakers can focus next. https://t.co/dZfTaYLKTj

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How widespread are declines in multilingual student enrollment? In nearly all regions, declines have been greater for multilingual than English-only students. Only the Sacramento region saw growth in both student groups over the past decade.

Learn more: https://t.co/913EQdFtt4

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Why is California's #K12 enrollment changing—and who is driving those changes? The data show enrollment trends vary sharply by students' language backgrounds, reshaping school demographics across the state.

Read the full analysis 👉 https://t.co/913EQdFtt4

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🆕 Do prison programs help people find work after release? Some do. College courses, vocational trades, and substance-use treatment were linked to higher post-release employment than other programs.

Full report: https://t.co/2Lml9DyoWL

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🆕 What predicts whether someone works after prison? Working before or during incarceration. People with pre-prison jobs were 9X more likely to be employed after release, and holding a prison job for 2-6 months boosted those odds by 11%.

Full report: https://t.co/2Lml9DyoWL

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🆕 How much did released prisoners earn? People rarely earned above the poverty threshold—before or after prison. Before prison, just 28% of working people exceeded it in at least one year. After prison, that share grew to 45%.

Full report: https://t.co/2Lml9DyoWL

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🆕 What kind of work did California’s released prisoners do? Inside and outside prison, jobs were low skill, low wage, and short term.

Full report: https://t.co/2Lml9DyoWL

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🆕 What does work look like for people leaving CA prisons? Nearly half of formerly imprisoned people never had a job outside prison. 40% worked before prison, 44% after—compared to 52% who held a job inside. A quarter had no recorded work.

Full report 👇 https://t.co/2Lml9DyoWL

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🆕 What does work look like before, during, and after prison? Our new report tracks ~170,000 people released from state prisons between 2015 and 2019—the first dataset of its kind—to find out where improvement is needed.

Full report 👇 https://t.co/2Lml9DyoWL

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“People are having a harder time than they were just a few years ago...particularly those just entering the job market." PPIC's Julien Lafortune in a new piece via @mcleantessa @SFGate.

Read the PPIC analysis feat. in the article: https://t.co/1qidcJCOQ6
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