Quoting Aesop’s Fable about the ant and the grasshopper, Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday took a stand against new spending commitments.

Brown unveiled his revised state budget proposal, revealing a $122.2 billion plan that is slightly smaller than the $122.6 billion outline floated in January.

Revenue estimates have been lowered by $1.9 billion to reflect drops in sales and income tax receipts. Even while the state’s economy continues to recover, Brown does not want to leave office in 2018 with the kind of recession-crippled budget that he had to grapple with when he launched his return to the governor’s desk in 2011.

The state’s worrier-in-chief foreshadowed his concern in January when he called for $2 billion to be socked away in a rainy-day fund.

Here’s how those mind-boggling figures could affect you.

RAINY-DAY PLAN

Our more-wary-then-ever governor aims to fend off new spending commitments and prepare for the eventuality of a recession. Otherwise, the state will have to make harsh budget cuts, he warned.

It also means, despite the state’s ongoing recovery, pleas will likely go unheard from the Democrat-controlled Legislature and progressive groups to boost spending on programs like child care and measures intended to help Californians who are still struggling in the wake of the Great Recession.

SOLVING HOMELESSNESS

Seeing more homeless people in your area? Help may be on the way. The budget endorses a $2 billion bond to give the state Department of Housing and Community Development money to target chronic homelessness. The money comes from a shift in funding for mental health services.

Senate Democrats had asked for the $2 billion to fight homelessness. “Homelessness plagues communities across our state, so I’m very pleased Governor Brown has embraced the Senate’s bipartisan ‘No Place Like Home’ proposal to direct $2 billion from the Prop. 63 bond to bolster local efforts to tackle this crisis,” Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles, said in a news release.

FUNDS FOR SCHOOLS

Are years of hikes in state university tuition outpacing your savings for Junior’s education?

There may be a freeze on the horizon. The revised budget infuses $2.9 billion into the Local Control Funding Formula to help previously under-funded schools.

Tuition at state universities would remain at 2011-12 levels, and $25 million is set aside to help California State University students earn degrees more quickly.

EASING POVERTY

A cost-of-living adjustment for Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment recipients – the first since 2005 – remains, as does the state’s first-ever earned income tax credit for low-income families.

Brown won praise from labor activists and others in April when he signed into law a gradual rise in the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour.

Advocates say the higher wage will lift workers out of poverty. Critics argue it will cost jobs.

ROAD WORRIER

The revised budget keeps a 10-year, $36 billion plan for highway and road maintenance, as well as more public transit.

Previous estimates put the state’s road maintenance backlog at $60 billion, and the state Transportation Commission has warned that state funding for road projects will dry up unless more money is found.

But proposals to raise more money for transportation, including plans to impose new fees on car owners, have stalled.