Why Is Liberal California The Poverty Capital Of America?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Republican_Party
Start there and then come back to us when you talk "no exaggeration"
That's not an exaggeration. There are no GOP statewide office holders in CA. Both senators are Dems and a big majority of the State Assembly and Senate and the members of Congress are Dems.
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California's Brown raises prospect of pension cuts
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Yes it has, but I added more details.
The California economy’s surface strength hides looming weakness
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You'll never stop being boring.
They either have them or they don't.
The cost of a hot economy in California: A severe housing crisis
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You're stuttering BB.
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Cool, thanks for providing everyone my point about you never failing to bore.
And also for pointing out that California has a fuckload of middle class which fucks up the op
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Doesn't change the fact that it's all held by the elites...the way D's like it.
and Republicans too—it's bi-partisan.
(Hi BB, hope you had a nice Christmas.)
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Why is liberal California the poverty capital of America?
By Kerry Jackson
January 14, 2018
Guess which state has the highest poverty rate in the country? Not Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia, but California, where nearly one out of five residents is poor. That’s according to the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, which factors in the cost of housing, food, utilities and clothing, and which includes noncash government assistance as a form of income.
Given robust job growth and the prosperity generated by several industries, it’s worth asking why California has fallen behind, especially when the state’s per-capita GDP increased approximately twice as much as the U.S. average over the five years ending in 2016 (12.5%, compared with 6.27%).
It’s not as though California policymakers have neglected to wage war on poverty. Sacramento and local governments have spent massive amounts in the cause. Several state and municipal benefit programs overlap with one another; in some cases, individuals with incomes 200% above the poverty line receive benefits. California state and local governments spent nearly $958 billion from 1992 through 2015 on public welfare programs, including cash-assistance payments, vendor payments and “other public welfare,” according to the Census Bureau. California, with 12% of the American population, is home today to about one in three of the nation’s welfare recipients. The generous spending, then, has not only failed to decrease poverty; it actually seems to have made it worse.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, some states — principally Wisconsin, Michigan, and Virginia — initiated welfare reform, as did the federal government under President Clinton and a Republican Congress. Tied together by a common thread of strong work requirements, these overhauls were a big success: Welfare rolls plummeted and millions of former aid recipients entered the labor force.
The state and local bureaucracies that implement California’s antipoverty programs, however, resisted pro-work reforms. In fact, California recipients of state aid receive a disproportionately large share of it in no-strings-attached cash disbursements. It’s as though welfare reform passed California by, leaving a dependency trap in place. Immigrants are falling into it: 55% of immigrant families in the state get some kind of means-tested benefits, compared with just 30% of natives.
rest of sad story here:
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-jackson-california-poverty-20180114-story.html
can't see the forest for the trees
Why is liberal California the poverty capital of America?
By Kerry Jackson
January 14, 2018
Guess which state has the highest poverty rate in the country? Not Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia, but California, where nearly one out of five residents is poor. That’s according to the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, which factors in the cost of housing, food, utilities and clothing, and which includes noncash government assistance as a form of income.
Given robust job growth and the prosperity generated by several industries, it’s worth asking why California has fallen behind, especially when the state’s per-capita GDP increased approximately twice as much as the U.S. average over the five years ending in 2016 (12.5%, compared with 6.27%).
It’s not as though California policymakers have neglected to wage war on poverty. Sacramento and local governments have spent massive amounts in the cause. Several state and municipal benefit programs overlap with one another; in some cases, individuals with incomes 200% above the poverty line receive benefits. California state and local governments spent nearly $958 billion from 1992 through 2015 on public welfare programs, including cash-assistance payments, vendor payments and “other public welfare,” according to the Census Bureau. California, with 12% of the American population, is home today to about one in three of the nation’s welfare recipients. The generous spending, then, has not only failed to decrease poverty; it actually seems to have made it worse.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, some states — principally Wisconsin, Michigan, and Virginia — initiated welfare reform, as did the federal government under President Clinton and a Republican Congress. Tied together by a common thread of strong work requirements, these overhauls were a big success: Welfare rolls plummeted and millions of former aid recipients entered the labor force.
The state and local bureaucracies that implement California’s antipoverty programs, however, resisted pro-work reforms. In fact, California recipients of state aid receive a disproportionately large share of it in no-strings-attached cash disbursements. It’s as though welfare reform passed California by, leaving a dependency trap in place. Immigrants are falling into it: 55% of immigrant families in the state get some kind of means-tested benefits, compared with just 30% of natives.
rest of sad story here:
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-jackson-california-poverty-20180114-story.html
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Doesn't change the fact that it's all held by the elites...the way D's like it.
They voted for Barack Obama twice. Did they not understand that the point of his presidency was to spread the wealth around?
Which reminds me is anybody check to see if all of the money that Barack Obama didn't earn so far since he left the presidency is being spread around in any way? He really didn't earn that.
...unless of course they are simply fulfilling their side of a previously arranged bargain that was struck while he was still president.
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Why is liberal California the poverty capital of America?
By Kerry Jackson
January 14, 2018
Guess which state has the highest poverty rate in the country?...
rest of sad story here:
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-jackson-california-poverty-20180114-story.html
Thank you for doing that which BeeZeBody doesn't.
Interesting.
According to the link in the article:
http://www.politifact.com/californi...alifornia-has-nations-highest-poverty-rate-w/
So .55% more Californians lived in poverty compared to America in general.
also
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Well...they TRY harder?
With all the natural resources and tech doesn't really make sense.
All of them ^^
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Thanks.
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