It shouldn’t be news to anyone that California is in a major crunch these days, and not the granola kind. The budget crisis has gotten so bad that in Los Angeles, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has threatened to shut down the entire city government for two days a week to save money.
KPCC’s Air Talk had [...]
Why do we make the decisions we do about how to manage our money? The psychology behind financial matters provides insight on everything from how good and bad money decisions are made — from mean-spirited scams to smart savings plans and everything in between.
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Ever see millions of dollars get shredded into the trash? When does a dollar bill not, well, fit the bill anymore? Yesterday, EconomyStory took a field trip to the Federal Reserve branch in downtown LA with a group of NPR reporters here for the week from across the country to learn from experts about expanding [...]
The fires burning in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles have already cost two lives and thousands of acres of protected land. How much will the emergency spending to control the disaster cost the already bankrupt state?
Patt Morrison of Pasadena-based public radio NPR station KPCC reported this morning that the California Department of Finance [...]
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