Posted on 11/16/2012 9:30:14 AM PST by TurboZamboni
The Golden State has reached a poverty rate that is now twice as bad as West Virginia’s and substantially worse than the rates of poverty in Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Texas, according to a new measure of poverty developed by the federal Census Bureau.
Democrat-run California earned its last-place rank under the federal government’s new measure of poverty, which incorporates more detailed analyses of welfare payments and the local costs of food, gasoline and housing California snatched the last-place prize from Mississippi, which had the highest poverty rate under the older and simpler measure, which gauged people’s ability to buy basic services and goods. Democratic California Gov. Gerry Brown’s office did not release a comment Nov. 15 about the new ranking, but did note that he would be attending a housing conference , the “Greenbuild International Conference and Expo,” in San Francisco Nov. 16.
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Yeah but we are getting a 6 billion dollar bullet train. The poor can ride the rails all day long.
I read the LA Crimes this morning and they had letters responding to an article about the train. They said the train would need the equivalent of 25% of the output of Hoover Dam to power the system.
I have never seen something so wrong being pushed so hard, except maybe OB care.
ours is only about a billion(so far)...but the homeless are only going back and forth from MPLS to St.Paul.
Or, bad news, they are readying us up to bail out the “poorest of the poor” states and doing this to make California a qualifier for that dole. Hate to be a “glass half empty”, but...
According to the public employees it’s because the stingy taxpayers didn’t pay them enough.
Bread expensive because those evil bakeries have to pay for their carbon emmissions.
No problem. Still lots of tax sources to mine. Kill Prop 13, and re-define the “rich” down to 200K per year, then 150k, and so on. By the time he gets to 50k per year, he should be out of office, and comfortably retired in Tahiti.
Microchips of Wrath.
I once liked vacationing there, but refuse to do so any more.I fund enough welfare in my own state.
Another reason I don’t spend money in MPLS or St.Paul any more if I can possibly avoid it and why I moved out of St.Paul.
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