The on-going battle over how much some California employees will be paid this month took another turn today(fri). A Superior Court judge ruled that the governor’s order to pay nearly 200-thousand public employees the federal minimum wage would cause too much harm to those employees, and rejected the administrations request for a restraining order against the state controller, who had refused to comply with the order. That means the state employees will be paid their normal wages for July and for August, however today’s ruling allowed the governor’s lawsuit to continue, which could reduce the pay beyond August. The effort to temporarily pay state workers minimum wage is in response to the failure of law-makers to pass a state budget on time.
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State education officials announced today that the California Department of Education is releasing 34-million dollars of federal funds to more than 1-thousand schools around the state. The list includes several schools in the Monterey Bay area. The awards include roughly 115-thousand dollars to distribute among 6 Santa Cruz County schools, about total of 260-thousand dollars to 19 Monterey County schools, as well as 24-thousand dollars to 4 San Benito County schools, and about 650-thousand dollars to 30 schools in Santa Clara County.
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Governor Schwarzenegger today(fri) ordered some California National Guard members to be deployed to the Mexican border. The move is part of a federal effort to station a total of 12-hundred National Guard troops along the southern U.S. border. The Obama Administration had asked California to contribute 224-guard members to the force. The deployment follows a similar effort conducted in 2006.
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According to new information released today, local unemployment rates are on the decrease. In Santa Cruz County, the unemployment rate fell from 11.5% in May to 11.3% in June. In Monterey County the unemployment rate declined from 11% in May to 10.8% last month, and in San Benito County, the rate also decreased last month from 17.6% in May to 15.7%. The statewide unemployment rate also fell slightly last month from 12.4% in May to 12.3%.
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