Poverty in California remains highest in US, tied with Louisiana, report says
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People of color, renters and children among most affected, as child poverty more than doubles since 2021

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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]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Policy_Center

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Why? I’m not conservative.

    I appreciate truth and I don’t really care where it comes from, I only care that it can be independently verified. Alex Jones is far from my first choice of source, but if someone thinks something he says is well supported by evidence and posts it here, I’ll take a look.

    Conservative

    Lol, you mean liberals making fun of conservatives? It’s a funny meme community, but I doubt there’s a single, actual conservative there.

    reddit

    I honestly really miss /r/neutralnews, where people were required to cite sources from acceptable (high credibility) sources, and posts would be removed if they didn’t cite any claims they made.

    I’m not on reddit because I hate how they closed their API for third party apps and the surveillance on their platform, not because I didn’t like the communities there.

    I don’t mind biased sources provided their facts are accurate, I can come to conclusions on my own and tend to look at multiple sources anyway for anything important (I’ve read probably half a dozen news articles about the Charlie Kirk assassination, for example, and from a variety of biases).