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- news@lemmy.world
Article Headline:
Poverty in California remains highest in US, tied with Louisiana, report says
A new report shows California has the highest poverty rate in the US, alongside Louisiana, and rates have shown little improvement.
Despite the abundant wealth in the state – more billionaires live in California than anywhere else in the US – in 2024 about 7 million people, or 17.7% of residents, could not afford to cover their basic needs. In 2021, California’s poverty rate reached a historic low of 11%, but as pandemic-era policies came to an end, rates surged in the state and across the US, according to the report from the California Budget and Policy Center released last week.
I’m thinking that this can’t be true, Louisiana? That has some developing world conditions. I looked into it. Of course it’s a POS research and they’re trying their hardest to look like dems if you go to their site. Fuck you Guardian.
The California Policy Center (CPC) is a conservative[2] and libertarian[3] public policy think tank located in California. Based in Tustin, the organization specializes in union policy, pension reform, spending reform, and school choice.[4] CPC was founded in 2010 by Marc Bucher and Edward Ring.[5] It is a member of the State Policy Network, an association of state-based conservative and libertarian think tanks.[6]
CPC has partnered with groups such as Reform California, the Freedom Foundation, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in campaigns to reduce the power of California’s unions.[9][10] CPC has also joined with the Center for Individual Rights to challenge a California law forbidding public employers from speech deterring or discouraging union membership in any way.[11][12] Pension reform
CPC says that California’s employee pension program places strain on the budgets of the state and of local governments.[13] CPC has also analyzed how the state pension “defined benefit” style system and changes in the amount of the benefit have affected the state’s budget liability.[14]
I added this edit. That’s not a study. The link you posted is just them “studying it.” It’s not an official study. It’s filled with charts and shit.
The calibudget center one says the increase in poverty is due to adopting more conservative budgetary policies in california, plus the cuts to health care, and budgetary support for families with children, that were implemented by the trump administration, nearly doubling the poverty rate as cost of living steeply rose for people making less than 20k per year. This group was already precarious because of the high cost of housing in california, and these budget, and tax, cuts pushed it over the edge.
From what I can tell they are taking data directly from the state’s own census data. They are then lining up the timing with the cuts to health care, and other budgetary support, for people in the lowest tax bracket. The outcome is a near perfect reflection. So, yeah, conservative austerity measures increased poverty, that is how it always works, even in california.
All true, but this is still an article, not a study.
It’s a report, and they link their sources.
Still not a study and they link sources with their opinions on it.
The article doesn’t mention a study, it mentions a report.
Oh you’re right, it’s a report. It changes that the Guardian is acting as a mouthpiece for the far right, how?
They’re linking to a report that cites its sources. I don’t really care what political motive the group has, I just care that the sources are cited and the data matches the sources.
I want unbiased journalism, and that means pulling data from all sides, provided it’s high quality data. It’s up to the reader to decide which sources they trust and decide for themselves what to take away from it.
So you have no problem if the Guardian uses Alex Jones as a source as long as he has links to other sources in his article, calls it a report from a legit sounding official CA page, but puts his spin on it? I think you’ll love The Guardian then, stick with it.
Why aren’t all of you people proving that this isn’t a right wing POS source that changed their web page to hide that they have 2 different websites. One catered to dems and one catered to alt right assholes?
If the data is accurate, no. I highly doubt Alex Jones would put out an accurate report though. If something is published by someone I believe to have a conflict of interest, I’ll give it more scrutiny, but not disregard it entirely, and I’ll generally look for a similar study/report by someone with the opposite conflict of interest and see where they overlap (generally in the analysis, not the facts).
You keep making that claim, but you’ve provided zero evidence and the page doesn’t show a californiapolicycenter link at all.
calbudgetcenter is based in SF, californiapolicycenter is based in LA. The founders are different, and the former was founded ~15 years before the latter. There’s zero evidence to suggest they’re affiliated in any meaningful way. If you have evidence, provide it.
You’re in the wrong community if you would accept anything from Alex Jones. Why are you here? I only try to post accurate stuff without the fluff, that’s usually who subscribes.
If you love a report from a right wing nutjob organization as if it was real, then I would think you would dig Conservative or reddit.