Support for California's Prop 30, which would close $15 billion higher ed budget gap, is soft

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If the measure tanks, the state's vast public higher-ed system faces a so-called "trigger cut" of nearly a billion bucks.

http://chronicle.com/article/For-Golden-States-Public/133565/

Here's what the proposition is all about:

http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposition_30,_Sales_and_Income_Tax_Increase_%282012%29

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