[pgyanke]

"California is home to more millionaires and billionaires than anywhere else in the United States. But we also have the highest poverty rate in the country," Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D–San Diego), the architect of the law, wrote in a Washington Post op-ed last year. "One contributing factor is we have allowed a great many companies—including 'gig' companies such as Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Handy and others—to rely on a contract workforce, which enables them to skirt labor laws, exploit working people and leave taxpayers holding the bag."

Stupid is as stupid does. The 'gig' economy is in response to labor laws and other idiocy that makes having full-time employees untenable. What to do? Get rid of the 'gigs' and let people starve.

[texas booster]

...But we also have the highest poverty rate in the country

You have the highest poverty rate since you import illegals from multiple countries, and knowingly take a blind eye to the welfare fraud they commit.

And then you rig the statistics so that government aid does not show up on poverty statistics. Nor do cash jobs.

[VTenigma]

Assemblywoman

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