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Guess which state has the highest poverty rate in the country?
Posted on 1/14/18 at 12:28 pm
Posted on 1/14/18 at 12:28 pm
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%).
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.
[link=(www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-jackson-california-poverty-20180114-story.html)]LINK[/link]
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%).
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.
[link=(www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-jackson-california-poverty-20180114-story.html)]LINK[/link]
Posted on 1/14/18 at 12:30 pm to Jbird
I assume this has to do with a skyrocketing cost of living along the coastal cities as well as an increase in hospitality for illegals and bums.
Posted on 1/14/18 at 12:30 pm to Jbird
Well we can’t get In N Out Burger here so they still beat us.
Posted on 1/14/18 at 12:32 pm to RFK
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In N Out Burger
Shake Shack is much better
Posted on 1/14/18 at 12:35 pm to upgrayedd
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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.
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Further contributing to the poverty problem is California’s housing crisis. More than four in 10 households spent more than 30% of their income on housing in 2015. A shortage of available units has driven prices ever higher, far above income increases. And that shortage is a direct outgrowth of misguided policies.
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“Counties and local governments have imposed restrictive land-use regulations that drove up the price of land and dwellings,” explains analyst Wendell Cox. “Middle-income households have been forced to accept lower standards of living while the less fortunate have been driven into poverty by the high cost of housing.” The California Environmental Quality Act, passed in 1971, is one example; it can add $1 million to the cost of completing a housing development, says Todd Williams, an Oakland attorney who chairs the Wendel Rosen Black & Dean land-use group. CEQA costs have been known to shut down entire homebuilding projects. CEQA reform would help increase housing supply, but there’s no real movement to change the law.
Extensive environmental regulations aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions make energy more expensive, also hurting the poor. By some estimates, California energy costs are as much as 50% higher than the national average. Jonathan A. Lesser of Continental Economics, author of a 2015 Manhattan Institute study, “Less Carbon, Higher Prices,” found that “in 2012, nearly 1 million California households faced … energy expenditures exceeding 10% of household income. In certain California counties, the rate of energy poverty was as high as 15% of all households.” A Pacific Research Institute study by Wayne Winegarden found that the rate could exceed 17% of median income in some areas.
Looking to help poor and low-income residents, California lawmakers recently passed a measure raising the minimum wage from $10 an hour to $15 an hour by 2022 — but a higher minimum wage will do nothing for the 60% of Californians who live in poverty and don’t have jobs. And research indicates that it could cause many who do have jobs to lose them. A Harvard University study found evidence that “higher minimum wages increase overall exit rates for restaurants” in the Bay Area, where more than a dozen cities and counties, including San Francisco, have changed their minimum-wage ordinances in the last five years. “Estimates suggest that a one-dollar increase in the minimum wage leads to a 14% increase in the likelihood of exit for a 3.5-star restaurant (which is the median rating),” the report says. These restaurants are a significant source of employment for low-skilled and entry-level workers.
Posted on 1/14/18 at 12:36 pm to Jbird
Welfare leads to professional welfare recipients. Why should people work hard to earn a living when the state guarantees a living if you agree to be "poor?"
Posted on 1/14/18 at 12:46 pm to RFK
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In N Out Burger
Overrated
Posted on 1/14/18 at 12:49 pm to SoulGlo
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In N Out Burger Overrated
Extremely overrated
Posted on 1/14/18 at 12:50 pm to Kentucker
Not everyone is meant to be a "worker". Some do not work to protest the system of capitalism. Others wish to devote their time to writing poetry or song lyrics or publicly playing isntruments.
Posted on 1/14/18 at 12:52 pm to RFK
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Well we can’t get In N Out Burger here so they still beat us.
Nothing beats a good ole mcdonalds cheeseburger baw
you want to meet at the sonic?
Posted on 1/14/18 at 12:52 pm to RFK
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In N Out Burger
Yeah, not like anyone else can slather Thousand Island dressing on burgers and fries. It's pretty overrated and yes, I have been to In-and-Out in Los Angeles as well as other places in California and Texas.
Surprised you sky screamers like the place despite their putting bible verses on the packaging.
Posted on 1/14/18 at 12:52 pm to Jbird
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Extensive environmental regulations
The delta smelt has dictated California policy
Muh water problems
Posted on 1/14/18 at 12:53 pm to Eurocat
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Not everyone is meant to be a "worker". Some do not work to protest the system of capitalism. Others wish to devote their time to writing poetry or song lyrics or publicly playing isntruments.
Then they should bear the consequences of their life choices and not be rewarded with free resources stolen from others.
Posted on 1/14/18 at 12:54 pm to Jbird
But but but they have the worlds 5th largest economy!!111
Posted on 1/14/18 at 12:54 pm to Jbird
The more it becomes like Mexico the more it will become like Mexico. Mexicans don’t become not Mexican by moving to the United States, this is called science.
Posted on 1/14/18 at 12:56 pm to upgrayedd
They do not fit into the barbarism of capitalism. It does not mean that the philosphers of 2018 should suffer.
Posted on 1/14/18 at 12:56 pm to Eurocat
That is the dumbest shite I’ve ever heard.
Surely you’re not serious?
Surely you’re not serious?
Posted on 1/14/18 at 12:56 pm to Eurocat
quote:1/10
They do not fit into the barbarism of capitalism. It does not mean that the philosphers of 2018 should suffer.
Posted on 1/14/18 at 12:57 pm to SDVTiger
Carl's Jr beats the pants off both In 'n Out and Shake Shack
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