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HOW WOULD YOU SOLVE A $18.4 BILLION STATE BUDGET DEFICIT?

California Budget Challenge – UPDATED March 2010 Edition

The California Budget Challenge is a nonpartisan online game that lets you decide how much to spend on schools, prisons, the environment and other state programs – and how to pay for them.

Next 10 has been traveling the state conducting highly interactive presentations using the California Budget Challenge -- allowing participants to vote on policy options that affect the budget in real-time with instant-response clickers. To invite Next 10 to present at your event or in your classroom, please contact sarah@next10.org.

Next 10 is nonpartisan and facilitates presentations across the state with both sides of the aisle. Recently Next 10 was asked by Assembly Speaker John Perez to facilitate public budget forums across the state. The forums were webcast live and you can watch past forums here: Forum Webcast

The California Budget Challenge allows users to:

Build a state budget based on your values and vision for the state's future
Learn about some of the topical policy choices legislators face
Take Action and email the governor and your representatives about the policy choices you are making
Understand about how the budget is built, who is involved, and important background information
See the choices other people are making on each policy choice

A TV news cameraman for KCRA Channel 3 News does a story at McClatchy High School on students trying to work out and understand the state's budget crisis.

Download “7 Facts About the Budget” a 2-page flyer on the state budget.

Download “California Budget Choices” an 8-page booklet available in multiple languages. (English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese)

Download “California at a Glance” a flyer with interesting facts about California in multiple languages. (English, Spanish/English, Chinese/English, Vietnamese/English, Korean/English)

Los Angeles, CA: Next 10 presents the Budget Challenge to a LA Budget Summit convened by LA County Supervisor Ridley-Thomas

Antioch, CA: Next 10 presents the Budget Challenge at a town hall convened by Assemblymember DeSaulnier

Join over 200,000 Californians and take the Budget Challenge today!