Paying down debt is the best use of the state’s reserve fund, voters say in a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll.
Twenty-four percent of voters favored debt payment. Twenty-one percent said state leaders should restore services cut during the recession, 16% said all of the money should be saved for future emergencies and 15% said the funds should be returned to Californians in the form of tax cuts.
Fourteen percent said the money should be used to cover the cost of pensions and healthcare for public workers, where the state has faced substantial shortfalls.