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When will California see the money Prop 35 promised?

  • Bias Rating

    8% Center

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -14% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Health care industry bigwigs like the California Medical Association and Planned Parenthood wanted to lock the funds away so they could be used for increasing doctor and clinic payments.
53% : So while the measure mandated that $90 million should go to reproductive health care or $691 million to primary care, it's up to a 10-person panel to develop a set of recommendations to the Department of Health Care Services for the precise way the money will actually be awarded.
51% : School choice initiative (2026): Kevin McNamee, a former Thousand Oaks mayor and Ventura Community College professor, has revived an initiative that would allow parents to take $17,000 a year in state money currently allocated to public schools and use it for private schools or homeschooling instead.
51% : Amend the state constitution to establish a right to "acquire, own, possess, use, keep and bear firearms" (1984, did not qualify) ...
49% : Amend the state constitution to establish a personal right to "acquire and possess" firearms for defense of self, family and home (2005, did not qualify) ...
45% : Establish constitutional right to keep and bear arms, while specifically excluding licensure for concealed weapons (1989, did not qualify) ...
43% : There's no telling when state regulators will figure it out, and the most optimistic predictions say it will be at least a year before doctors see those raises.
40% : "With federal cuts looming, it is more important than ever that we fight for Medicaid and on behalf of the 15 million Californians who depend on it.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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