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Why is liberal California the poverty capital of America?
LA Ti,es ^ | 1/14/18 | Kerry Jackson

Posted on 01/14/2018 6:42:24 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom

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

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; liberalism; poverty
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Could it be that parts of CA are s***holes, or is it racist to say that?


41 posted on 01/14/2018 7:48:10 AM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Econ 101:

Rewarding (ie welfare) unwanted behavior (ie poverty), produces more of the behavior.

End the welfare state.


42 posted on 01/14/2018 7:50:48 AM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Face it they encourage people not to work (socialism), condone crime and love substance abuse.


43 posted on 01/14/2018 7:51:37 AM PST by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: cld51860

It is also the homeless capital of the USA.

If you want to live on the streets’ assure you that you want to do it in sunny Califirniaas opposed to other freezing states.


44 posted on 01/14/2018 7:57:01 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I love Bull Markets!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Seems like a perfect article to unleash a Trump tweetstorm, no?

Maybe the reason libs are so obsessed with income inequality is that they’re surrounded by examples of it in every state they control, and not just a few countries as well.


45 posted on 01/14/2018 8:04:14 AM PST by Norseman (Defund the Left....completely!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

When one looks at housing costs when defining poverty California will always lose. It costs a small fortune to live there


46 posted on 01/14/2018 8:23:06 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

There are many parallels between the Californian and Federal problems. (1) A deeply entrenched Progressive bureaucracy (2) An overabundance of bureaucrat operatives (3) A recent history of Progressive Democrat and RINO Republican leadership (4) Third World morals in governance. The ‘Federal electorate’ finally rebelled giving us Trump but due to the massive ongoing in-migration of poverty, I see no chance of a similar solution in California.


47 posted on 01/14/2018 8:32:42 AM PST by I am Richard Brandon
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Sh*tholes all over California...


48 posted on 01/14/2018 8:48:29 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

It’s the poverty capital because it’s a place where you can make $100,000 and still struggle to pay the rent and your student loan.


49 posted on 01/14/2018 9:03:15 AM PST by Colinsky
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I am from the (rural) East Coast. Was in San Diego recently. I simply couldn’t believe the number of homeless/addicts/mentally ill (ie. bums) around. Turn your head anywhere while at a shopping mall, strip mall, office complex, and you could easily count a few hanging about.

I wanted to walk to a nearby shopping area from my hotel in the early evening, but was warned not to “because of our homeless population” was the cliche I was given by the hotel staff.

Just another thing Californians have simply learned to accept, without question.


50 posted on 01/14/2018 9:11:31 AM PST by PGR88
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To: cld51860

Indeed California policymakers know how Cook county (Chicago) works it’s how they stay in power most voters in California are clueless to facts they only know what the media pimps to them.


51 posted on 01/14/2018 11:30:48 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: Vaduz

How do Chicago politics work and how they are implemented in California?


52 posted on 01/16/2018 8:09:10 AM PST by Freedom56v2 (#KATE'SWALL Build it Now)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

California’s becoming a shithold because ‘liberal elites’ are totalitarians at heart. In a few years they’ll be rounding up people and putting them in ovens.


53 posted on 01/16/2018 8:19:32 AM PST by GOPJ (The press is fed by the FBI & CIA - YOUR tax dollars at work - propping up establishment democrats.)
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To: Freedom56v2

Lobbyist with the highest bid always win California has been ungovernable for years it’s why the push is on for New California.
Cook county looks like a small time operation compared to Ca.


54 posted on 01/16/2018 8:49:36 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: Retvet

California is PAYING black ex-cons to set up shop selling drugs. How insane is that?


55 posted on 01/16/2018 9:41:43 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Nifster
It costs a small fortune to live there<

You are way behind. It cost a small fortune to live here 40 years ago (800 sq foot house, 40 years old, 6,000 sq foot lot for $100,000). Today it costs a huge fortune to live here (same house $2 million).

56 posted on 01/16/2018 9:44:55 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

True words.....


57 posted on 01/16/2018 11:57:08 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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