In the agency's first-ever study of mental disorders among children aged 3 to 17, researchers found childhood mental illnesses affect up to one in five kids and cost $247 billion per year in medical bills, special education and juvenile justice.

The Overview: "Given the improved fiscal forecast, we believe this is an ideal time for the Legislature to begin addressing its huge budgetary and retirement liabilities"

Under a plan unveiled on Tuesday by Governor Jerry Brown, California has left its 2014 budget surplus at $850 million but revised down its general fund budget to $96.4 billion.

Some 60 to 70 million people in the US could be impacted by the new health care law, and most of us still don’t know what that means.

West 47th Street, the remarkable, award-winning documentary film airing on PBS on Sunday, May 19 on the WORLD Channel.