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Agenda 2010 is a plan to create 140,000 jobs. It proposes to do so without dismantling workplace or environmental protections, and it calls for no new taxes. It is a modest package of 27 bills focused on jobs, smart investments, education and families. According to a quick analysis by the California Research Bureau, a jobs package that creates 100,000 jobs creates some $6.7 billion in economic activity in California and saves the General Fund apporximately $2.3 billion in increased revenues and avoided costs. Agenda 2010 bills fall into the following four categories:

Investment of Public Funds: Infrastructure and Jobs

  • Ensure California is making quick, efficient and smart use of available and pending federal funds to expand in-state job creation
  • Target unspent state bond funds to innovative new programs that create jobs, improve infrastructure or make California more sustainable.

Expansion of Jobs in the"New Economy"

  • Expand California's market for innovative jobs in energy efficiency and renewable energy projects.
  • Help companies navigate the sometimes complex permitting processes at state agencies; reward companies wanting to do business with the state that commit to employing Californians, and align our tax laws with federal laws that help companies do business - and create jobs - in California.

Prepare the state’s workforce

  • Maximize opportunities for Californians to acquire the necessary job skills to gain and keep employment, focusing on jobs in high-growth, high-wage sectors of the economy.

Value working families

  • Recognize that working families in California are struggling through a tough economy and could use help finding a job, keeping their homes and affording a college education.
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