California Budget Challenge: Voters Can Make Their Budget Priorities Known Online budget simulation allows voters to call the shots on taxes, prison reform, education funding and more

In the next few days, our state leaders will either cut or assign funding for everything from schools, to prisons, to healthcare," said F. Noel Perry, founder of Next 10, the nonpartisan nonprofit organization that created the Challenge. "We want to be sure that voters not only understand the process, but we also want to empower Californians to tell our state leaders what their budget priorities are." Since it first launched seven years ago, more than a quarter million people have used the interactive California Budget Challenge, a budget simulator that allows users to create a budget by growing or cutting services, addressing taxes, and changing the way dollars are spent on state programs and services.