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California Ranks as Poorest State, One of the Worst for Income Inequality
GP ^ | October 26,2018 | MATT MARGOLIS

Posted on 10/27/2018 5:52:20 PM PDT by Hojczyk

Despite all the wealth in the state and the Democrat control of state government, California actually ranks as the poorest state in the country after costs of living are factored in. A whopping 19 percent of Californians live below the poverty line. While California represents just 12 percent of the nation’s population,

Californians represent a third of all Americans on welfare. The average monthly cost of rent in the state is 43 percent higher than the national average. Nearly a third of Californians spend more than half of their earnings on housing. The situation is made worse by skyrocketing energy costs. “Residents who can afford rent or a mortgage are on the hook for electricity rates burdened by green initiatives and regulation that grew 500 percent faster than the national average from 2011 to 2017.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: california; economy
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To: Hojczyk
“California Ranks as Poorest State, One of the Worst for Income Inequality”

Yeah, but at least their cities don’t have used drug needles and human sh*t all over the place... oh, wait...

21 posted on 10/27/2018 7:42:45 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Hojczyk
California ranks extremely poorly on the most important metric- quality of life

Even many very wealthy people living in San Francisco has a comparably poor quality of life given the current state of the City

22 posted on 10/27/2018 7:49:25 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: Hojczyk

Because of illegal immigration.


23 posted on 10/27/2018 7:51:50 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: rdcbn
Well just wait til these guys get there!


24 posted on 10/27/2018 7:52:04 PM PDT by caww
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To: Hojczyk
Wait until California adds hundreds of thousands of new illegals for welfare, food stamps, free health care, etc etc. California is a communists Democrat shi! hole and will never be able to recover. It has passed the point. And if we are not careful the whole Country will go the same way.
25 posted on 10/27/2018 8:03:18 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: Hojczyk

Rent would go down substantially if a couple million people leave who are not supposed to be in California.


26 posted on 10/27/2018 8:13:32 PM PDT by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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To: Hojczyk

Just bring more on welfare, that’ll help with their death wish.


27 posted on 10/27/2018 8:14:10 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: Hojczyk

If the economy and standard of living is so bad, why does all of Central America want to move there?


28 posted on 10/27/2018 8:17:15 PM PDT by EC Washington
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To: Hojczyk

Income inequality is a poor way to measure a state’s desirability. Others have already noted the stress and the lack of cleanliness living here.

The best way to measure a state is by how many want to come and how many want to leave. And California has a very bad future by that measure, because all the world’s poor want to come here and many of the state’s most wealthy are looking at how nice it would be to live in Idaho or Texas.


29 posted on 10/27/2018 8:17:58 PM PDT by KC_for_Freedom
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To: Hojczyk

Notice the wealthy (Democrats) horde their wealth while exploiting their workers. They don’t want trickle down. They believe in mind, mine,mine!


30 posted on 10/27/2018 8:25:34 PM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: Hojczyk

California has been stuck on stupid for over 40 years.


31 posted on 10/27/2018 8:29:42 PM PDT by Bommer (Help 2ndDivisionVet - https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=category&term=married-recent-amputee)
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To: Hojczyk

A big chunk of this is being driven by lack of affordable housing stock. The lack of affordable housing stock is caused by baby boomer NIMBYs who block new development.


32 posted on 10/27/2018 8:39:15 PM PDT by socalgop
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To: Hojczyk

Aye carumba!


33 posted on 10/27/2018 8:49:13 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Hojczyk

The rich make the best socialists.


34 posted on 10/27/2018 8:54:39 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Hojczyk

Morally bankrupt.


35 posted on 10/27/2018 9:42:28 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: dragnet2

It is all rigged in California. They don’t want the trash to have a place to live at a price that they can afford, they want them far away.

I have one family member out there and it makes me sad just to think of their circumstances and future.


36 posted on 10/27/2018 9:49:47 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: Hojczyk

Bump for reference


37 posted on 10/28/2018 2:48:11 AM PDT by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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To: Hojczyk
California = Venezuela with the USA flag but with full supermarket shelves.

With all the wealth, glitter & mega mansions in the state compared to the Millions struggling just to survive, this does brings to mind the story that Jesus told about the Rich Man and the Poor Man Lazarus, who begged for food outside his mansion.

38 posted on 10/28/2018 3:37:18 AM PDT by prophetic (Trump is today's DANIEL. Shut the mouth of lions Lord, let his enemies be the Cat Food instead.)
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To: Hojczyk

They want to run the state into bankruptcy, and when it can’t make interest payments on its debt, the default will be so huge as to crash the entire US economy.

First step to socialist takeover is to destroy the old institutions.

California may be the first domino to fall. The massive increase in interest rates following their bond default will take down Illinois, New York, and others.


39 posted on 10/28/2018 5:57:59 AM PDT by motor_racer (If you don't read the news, you are uninformed. If you read the news, you are misinformed.)
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