HHS Network Delivers Econ Impact Report to Capitol
On Friday, the HHS Network of California delivered copies of a new, groundbreaking report from the University of California Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education outlining the devastating economic impacts of the Governor’s proposed cuts to major health and human services programs.
The new report includes information on estimated jobs lost, reductions in economic output and losses in state and local revenues for California’s key regions, including:
- Bay Area
- Central Coast
- Los Angeles County
- Northern/Sierra
- Other Southern California counties
- Sacramento
- San Joaquin Area
You can download the report here (PDF).
But the most severe consequences of the Governor’s cuts-only budget would come in the form of hundreds of thousands of jobs lost – at a time when more than 2 million Californians are currently out of work! In Los Angeles County alone, more than 84,000 jobs would be lost! An equally astounding 37,000 jobs would be lost in the Bay Area, and tens of thousands more jobs lost in the other key regions included in the report…all the result of the Governor’s proposed cuts to vital health and human services like CalWORKS, Child care, IHSS and others.
