"Impact of Proposition 13 on the Chicano community"

In 1978, California voters passed Proposition 13, which decreased property taxes and reduced the state's revenue. In this footage, an unidentified man talks about the negative impact the recently passed Proposition 13 will have on Chicano people through both layoffs and a loss of bilingual employees providing services to a community with many non-English speakers. He discusses measures that could be implemented to help bilingual people keep their jobs as well as measures that could help reduce the amount of revenue expected to be lost as a result of Proposition 13.

Note:  The KTLA newsfilm collection at UCLA consists of cut and unedited stories, outtakes and fill footage, originally shot on 16mm reversal film stock with magnetic soundtrack. Some footage, particularly material not used for broadcast, may be without sound.