Next Ten is inviting Californians to take the "California Budget Challenge." The California Budget Challenge lets you roll up your sleeves and create your own state budget for the next 10 years. You call the shots on how much to give to schools, health care, prisons and other areas and also on how to pay for these programs.

Today's budget decisions create the California of tomorrow. Yet many Californians are not fully informed and engaged in the state budget process. We created the California Budget Challenge as a public service to engage more Californians in the budget process and to create understanding about the tough choices we need to make to ensure California is a great place to live now and in the future.

Take the California Budget Challenge and see if you can make choices that will create the kind of California you would like to see in ten years.