SACRAMENTO -- Making good on a promise to trim the state budget, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger eliminated a $55-million program Friday that advocates say has helped thousands of mentally ill homeless people break the costly cycle of hospitalization, jails and street life.
(California homeless program is cut - LATimes)
Also cut from the state budget were $1.3 million to monitor hospital efforts to eliminate infections, $30 million for state parks, $6 million to obtain discount medicines for lower-income people, and $17.4 million to protect seniors.
But a $54 million tax break for yacht owners? Kept that one, you bet.
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