The future of our great state is at stake. Here is just some of what we will continue to face in California if we do not take a new approach:

• More than 7 million Californians without health insurance
• The lowest minimum wage of West Coast states
• The highest number of young people incarcerated
• Toward the end of the pack on per-student spending in public education
• An affluence rate and a poverty rate that are both higher than the national average, demonstrating a considerable and growing wealth gap