Posted on 01/14/2007 6:03:05 AM PST by radar101
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's elaborate rollout of his second-term agenda last week contained many moving parts and -- either inadvertently or by design -- underscored one of California's most salient trends: increasing socioeconomic stratification.
But in the midst of those celebratory occasions, Schwarzenegger unveiled a sweeping plan to bring health care insurance to the estimated 6.5 million Californians -- the working poor, for the most part -- who lack it, thus focusing attention on a growing underclass.
In one study, Mogull found that the state's poverty rate was 14.4 percent in 1959 and dropped to 11.1 percent in 1969, but "there has been a constant increase over the past 30 years," which he describes as "an ominous upward trend."
The rate was 14.2 percent in 1999 -- nearly 5 million people -- and is projected to rise again in this decade. By 2009, due to both population growth and a rising incidence of poverty, Mogull expects the number of poverty-stricken Californians to increase by another 25 percent.
He calculated that 4.7 million Californians lived in poverty in 1999 and a third of them lived in Los Angeles County, with Latinos by far the largest single poverty-stricken ethnic group. Latinos were a quarter of the Californians in poverty in 1969, a third in 1979, 44 percent in 1989 and more than 50 percent in 1999, reflecting both rapid growth in the state's Latino population and the simple fact that so many are immigrants with little education.
Half of Latino Californians living in poverty are in Los Angeles, and Mogull also notes that with housing costs much higher in Los Angeles than the nation as a whole, the data -- which are based on federal designations of income -- may be understating the actual incidence of poverty.
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Pelosi you witch!
California is being [sub]merged with Mexico.
I'd guess it gets pretty expensive to be a socialist utopia, overflowing with illegal aliens.
I wonder why.
Socialism "ALWAYS" brings poverty, not sometimes, ALWAYS.
And to compound the problem they keep letting aliens in and they come in with nothing and add to the levels of the poor.
With all those wacky far left redistribute the wealth policies in CA, it's hard to imagine how the distribution of wealth could be getting worse... unless those policies just don't work.
This is by design.
The illegal immigrant underclass are custimers and clients to expand the welfare state and govt employees.
A jobs program for dhimicRats.
Ever heard of Mexifornia?
CA is so scewed with lump-jawed, cross-eyed, bowl-legged LIBERALS! Including it's Liberal Repellican Goofinator!!!
This has nothing to do with illegal mexican aliens, now does it? Nothing to do with California's socialist state leaders does it?
Homes are cheap here in Big Bear area. But it is COLD up there today! There are expensive areas in Dallas, Austin, Houston and cheap areas here in Calif. But the TRAFFIC here is HORRIBLE. And the CRIME. Parts of LA look like Tijuana with all the graffiti. The traffic is horrible and I do not see a solution to it, and giving free medical care to illegals is only going to cause the population to grow. I know it is boring living in Lake Jackson Texas - where we will be moving back to eventually - but the traffic is almost ZERO and even when we go to Houston the traffic is not bad. Here in LA the traffic always looks like Hurricane Rita evac. in Houston. Took us 5 1/2 hours to drive back to Rancho Cucamonga from Joshua Tree and it is a 1.5 hour drive, if the traffic is moving.
High tax states are fine for people who are already wealthy (as long as they're living) - taxes are a function of income. If you're an ambitious up&comer, you're going to find out real fast how many illegals you're going to be forced to support. Much better to make your money elsewhere, then move to CA to 'help' the commoners (see Pelosi, N).
Just deport this problem back to Mexico.
The government's solution seems to be to import yet more illegal aliens to further displace Americans in the workplace.
California needs to import more illegal immigrants to whom poverty is luxury.
Yes, because it is up to the polticians to make sure that illiterate poor people are comfortable and receive their fair share of free health care, education, food, clothes, housing, money, sneakers, etc. It is what being in America is all about. It's in the Declaration (or whatever). The politicians are very nice people for doing all of this, and they should be thanked every day. They should also be reelected over and over.
Make sure you only give them script for something that enriches someone else. That way they stay poor.
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