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Lawmakers push for restoring benefits, preschool

By Judy Lin
Published June 8, 2014 7:23pm ET
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Lawmakers push for restoring benefits, preschool
In this photo taken Thursday, June 5, 2014, home care providers and the seniors and people with disabilities for whom they provide care, call for increased state funding during a rally at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown and lawmakers head into the final week of budget negotiations, having reached agreements in many areas of state spending, but Democrats who control both houses of the legislature want to use extra cash to restore services for the poor which were cut during California's past multibillion budget shortfalls. (AP Photo/The Sacramento Bee, Manny Crisostomo) | Manny Crisostomo

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown and fellow Democratic state lawmakers head into the final week of negotiations over the state budget having agreed to a rainy day fund and pay down massive liabilities in the teachers’ pension system.

But lawmakers have their own plans for what to do with California’s newfound surplus.

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