Los Angeles County leaders say the new $45.4 billion proposed budget heavily prioritizes an investment in mental health, but some say it's not enough.

The proposed budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1 is almost $1.4 billion less than the current budget, but features increased spending for more than 830 new jobs.

More than half of the new positions in the budget plan would go to the county Department of Mental Health, according to county CEO Fesia Davenport’s office.

Los Angeles County leaders say the new <a href="https://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/bos/supdocs/190717.pdf" data-cms-ai="0">$45.4 billion proposed budget</a> heavily prioritizes an investment in mental health, but some say it's not enough.
The proposed budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1 is almost $1.4 billion less than the current budget, but features increased spending for more than 830 new jobs.
<a href="https://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/lac/1159200_MEDIARELEASE_2024-25RecommendedBudget.pdf" data-cms-ai="0">More than half of the new positions</a> in the budget plan would go to the county Department of Mental Health, according to county CEO Fesia Davenport’s office.

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LA County Says Proposed Budget Prioritizes Mental Health. But Is It Enough?

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Nobuko Miyamoto’s life-long quest to tell Asian American stories is chronicled in a documentary film premiering Saturday in Los Angeles at the VC Film Festival: Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement.

The film, directed by Quyên Nguyen-Le and Tadashi Nakamura, chronicles Miyamoto’s artistic journey as a third-generation Japanese American born in Los Angeles at the start of World War II to her mainstream success as a performer on Broadway and in films such as West Side Story.

Nobuko Miyamoto’s life-long quest to tell Asian American stories is chronicled in a documentary film premiering Saturday in Los Angeles at the VC Film Festival: <a href="https://festival.vcmedia.org/2024/movies/nobuko-miyamoto-a-song-in-movement/">Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement</a>.
The film, directed by Quyên Nguyen-Le and Tadashi Nakamura, chronicles Miyamoto’s artistic journey as a third-generation Japanese American born in Los Angeles at the start of World War II to her mainstream success as a performer on Broadway and in films such as West Side Story.

The Art and Activism of Nobuko Miyamoto: How She Became One Of LA's Most Enduring Performers

The 2022-23 rainy season saved California from a brutal drought by delivering one of the wettest years on record. And it'd be great if we could keep the good times rolling with yet another major rain and snow year just like it this coming winter.

However, the odds of that happening aren't all that high, according to a recently published study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which says the event was about a 1 in 54-year occurrence. That means there was a roughly 2% chance of it happening in the current climate regime. It was so exceptional that the authors said that about 5% of observed sites saw a 1 in 320-year occurrence.

The 2022-23 rainy season saved California from a brutal drought by delivering one of the wettest years on record. And it'd be great if we could keep the good times rolling with yet another major rain and snow year just like it this coming winter.
However, the odds of that happening aren't all that high, according to a <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2320600121" data-cms-ai="0">recently published study</a> in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which says the event was about a 1 in 54-year occurrence. That means there was a roughly 2% chance of it happening in the current climate regime. It was so exceptional that the authors said that about 5% of observed sites saw a 1 in 320-year occurrence.

LA County Says Proposed Budget Prioritizes Mental Health. But Is It Enough?

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