The Mercury News Article RatingNewsom blames California's $12 billion budget shortfall on tariffs, Medi-Cal spending on immigrants
- Bias Rating
- Reliability
50% ReliableAverage
- Policy Leaning
10% Center
- Politician Portrayal
7% Positive
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Bias Score Analysis
The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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8% Positive
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- Conservative
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
59% : The program generates $3 billion to $5 billion a year, which has been spent on renewable energy, mass transit, the state's high speed rail project and other programs.50% : "California voters have been very clear about their state priorities: reduce homelessness and reduce crime," Graham Knaus, chief executive of the California State Association of Counties, said in a statement.
47% : Housing advocates said that means developers could soon be without hundreds of millions of dollars in state tax credits and loans, which are crucial to financing low-income projects.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.
