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After tax cuts derailed the 'California dream,' is the state getting back on track?

  • Written by Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageWhile Prop 13 may have saved the California dream for some, it destroyed it for many others. AP Photo/Lennox McLendon

In 1978, the year I graduated from college with a degree in economics, most voters in my state chose to turn their backs on the “California dream.”

Not unlike the American dream, California’s iteration focused on...

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