By Viji Sundaram, New America Media
California Governor Jerry Brown’s $170.7 billion proposed budget, which he unveiled last Thursday, is being greeted with mixed emotions.
While health care advocates are pleased that a program to provide health insurance for the state’s uninsured children would be funded in the 2016-17 proposed budget, some are unhappy that the budget does not do nearly enough for children. For one thing, the proposal fails to adequately invest in “critical children’s health and child welfare programs, such as the Early Mental Health Initiative,” said a press release from Children Now, an advocacy organization for children.
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