Look inside Governor Edmund “Jerry” Brown Jr.’s final state budget that was passed in June, and you will see important reasons why California struggles with a host of problems ranging from road congestion to reliable water supplies.

California on Your Mind is a new biweekly journal from the Hoover Institution about California politics, California policies, and the California economy. This online journal, written by Hoover Senior Fellow Lee Ohanian and Hoover Research Fellow Bill Whalen, fills an important need by delivering detailed, real-time economic and political analysis twice each week about the state that has become the world’s 5^th largest economy.

Hoover Institution fellow Michael Petrilli discusses the state’s charter school politics.

Buying a home is simply out of reach for many Americans. However, a new proposal from Sen. Kamala Harris would help low and moderate-income families that pay more than 30-percent of their pre-tax income on rent and utilities.