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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Advocates for low income families say they are unhappy about the Governor Jerry Brown's proposed cuts to health and human services, as well as proposed cuts to education. They say the cuts hurt the state's most vulnerable families.
Today's rally was called the "State of the 99%" and happened just minutes after the Governor delivered this year's state of the state. Protestors called on Governor Brown to raise taxes on the wealthy, to do away with Prop 13, and to implement an oil severance tax. They chastised the governor for proposing to make cuts to calworks, the state's welfare to work program.
"Calworks is a really good program and its not charity. You know we are trying to lift them up and this is a good way by teaching them how to do something to lift them up because they in turn will lift someone else up," says one of the participants, Nann Brasmer.
The group today said schools and health and human services have already been hit with billions of dollars in cuts in the last few years. They are asking for more taxes, and less cuts.
