Posted on 09/15/2019 10:44:15 AM PDT by artichokegrower
As the California Legislature churned toward adjournment last week, its members received another reminder that the state’s most vexing — and shameful — socioeconomic malady persists.
The Census Bureau reported that California still has the highest level of functional poverty of any state, averaging 18.2% of its 40 million residents impoverished during the three preceding years.
(Excerpt) Read more at calmatters.org ...
Highest cost of housing, highest cost for electricity, highest cost for gasoline, highest number of illegal immigrants. What could go wrong?
I didn’t notice any mention of what the poverty line is in California. I think it’s over 30,000 for a family of four.
Those people have worked very hard to achieve that status. Give them their due credit.
“and the state’s concurrent absorption of millions of often undereducated immigrants”
But Twosome Newsom wants more!
Millions and Millions more!
And he says I’ll just outlaw rent increases and that way everyone will have a cheep place to live....except they won’t because no one will invest and his buddies wont issue building permits anyway!
But we all know what happens next!
The Grapes of Wrath solution - government housing, like the Pajaro Valley! “Free” housing, built with other people’s money!
Because that worked out so well in the Soviet Union, Cabrini-Green, the Bronx...and of course Watsonvile, Corralitos, Santa Cruz (where Adrian Gonzalez got built in victims!), and “beautiful” Salinas and King City with the “farm worker” barracks.
What would California Leftists do without desperate people to use as props?
Of the 18.2%, about 17% are illegals, newly arrived.
Side Note: 2/3 of the nations welfare recipients are in CA.
Simply because we have the best climate of any state in the USA ...we attract a massive proportion of homeless. I can’t remember was percentage it was ...but CA has way more homeless than other states.
And we are now treating them like kings as well.
It’s sobering to think of how much poverty there is in California. It’s quite a contrast to the stereotypical view of California being full of wealthy Hollywood stars and hi tech millionaires.
Hey California, Mississippi is laughing at you.
BTW, I can remember when the abbreviation for California was Calif. We got the two letter designations after Calif. became known as Come And Live In Florida. Now CA stands for Can’t Afford.
If Trump really wanted to help California Out and fix the poverty and homeless crisis, he would send 2000 ICE Agents and begin rounding up and deporting the 1.5 MILLION Illegal Aliens just in Los Angeles. Housing Crisis over i one week, massive Slumlord Bankruptcies, Rents cut in half or more, Freeways and Streets suddenly have no traffic, oh and by the way the entire Greater Los Angeles Area would be CRIPPLED and Most Businesses would be CLOSED for Good. All of this would happen in less than 30 days.
national median of $63,179 -- Oh, come on. We raised two kids and sent them to college on our dime (this decade grads) on half that, paid off the mortgage and have no debt. The thing that kills the budget are the taxes which would go waaay down with deportations.
I’m 70. My hometown is LA. It has changed. Right now...it is very expensive to live here. Even a lousy apartment runs about $3,600 a month!
Luckily, I own. My family has farmed here for going on 200 years. They still farm...although not in LA. You live in CA too ...it has much to offer.
In many ways, the iconic LA lifestyle still exists ...but available to fewer, harder for many to attain.
Bums live here because of the weather.
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