California budget has money for promised raise for state workers, but little else

Sacramento Bee

With state employee contract talks just weeks away, Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday rolled out a budget that included money for long-promised pay raises and little else – at least for next year. California state government would pay about $501 million more for its employees in fiscal 2013-14, according to the governor's proposal, while the number of positions would remain essentially flat.

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