Raise taxes to fund state universities, officials say
Saying that proposed budget cuts threaten California’s economic future, leaders of the state’s public college and university systems urged lawmakers Monday to raise taxes rather than close the doors of higher education on its future work force. "By 2025, California will be short 3 million prepared workers to be economically viable," California State University Chancellor Charles Reed said. "What’s going to happen is that those jobs will go somewhere else."
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by Timm Herdt, The Ventura County Star.