SAN FRANCISCO – While the state’s years-long budget crisis has come to a close, Californians face tough questions when they put themselves in the budget hot seat by playing the 2016 update of Next 10’s annual California Budget Challenge (www.budgetchallenge.org). The nonpartisan online game is the state’s most comprehensive budget-balancing tool, allowing users to decide for themselves what programs the state should fund and where that money should come from.