Paul's California Budget 2004-2005 Explorer

Category	2005 Spending	Percent change vs 2002	Federal Funds	Your share
Sec for Labor and Workforce Development -- State Operations	$0	-100.0 %	0	$ 0.00
Employment Development Department	$86.3 Mil	108.3 %	8034.8 Mil	$ 355.96
California Workforce Investment Board -- State Operations	$0	0.0 %	4.6 Mil	$ 0.20
Agricultural Labor Relations Board -- State Operations	$4.8 Mil	3.8 %	0	$ 0.21
Department of Industrial Relations	$211.4 Mil	3.3 %	29.5 Mil	$ 10.56
TOTAL LABOR AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY	$302.6 Mil	20.7 %	8068.8 Mil	$ 366.93

Observations:

K-12 spending per pupil is $9614. That's approaching $300K per classroom...the teacher is not getting paid enough (optimistically $60K?), where is the rest of all that money going?
Medi-Cal is $20400 per recipient annually from the general fund alone. Something like 80% of people in nursing homes are on Medi-Cal thanks to asset-hiding loopholes that allow most people to appear bankrupt in the eyes of the state. (Source: Len Tillem KGO Radio)
The CA budget is way more complicated and convoluted than the federal budget. It's really quite impressive.