Posts Tagged: Proposition 55

Survey: Support for legal pot, school funding, tobacco tax

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by Public Policy Institute of California posted 09.23.2016

PPIC: Majorities of California’s likely voters strongly support three of four key ballot measures on Nov. 8, including marijuana legalization, a tax increase extension and a new tax on tobacco, according to a new survey by the Public Policy Institute of California. Support for the fourth measure surveyed, a $9 billion borrowing for school construction, was far more narrow and within the survey’s margin of error.

Medi-Cal pervades Nov. 8 ballot

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by DOROTHY MILLS-GREGG posted 08.29.2016

Medi-Cal is on the November ballot, hiding in plain sight in three propositions. These ballot measures could yield about $7.6 billion for the state’s health care program for low-income families, the disabled and children.