To really make this work, we need to make sure that these nurses are able to make a genuine contribution to the budget setting process.

BBC: Nurses to run more hospitals

They uncovered flaws in the budget-setting process, with spending plans based on historic and unreliable information.

BBC: Social work study finds financial failings

Yesterday's deal may solve California's immediate budgetary problems but it does little to address the structure of the underlying revenue-raising and budget-setting process, which are the cause of perennial strife for the state.

ECONOMIST: California's budget