Last checked California was the fifth largest economy in the world....The rural Red States in trump country?...Not so great
Perhaps, you should combine the following information with your last checked info concerning California.
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/05/...leads-the-nation-in-poverty-and-homelessness/
The Orange County Register
Opinion Piece
California has the 5th largest economy in the world yet leads the nation in poverty and homelessness
By Sal Rodriguez PUBLISHED: May 4, 2018 at 5:14 pm | UPDATED: May 4, 2018 at 6:26 pm
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In fact, according to the Census Bureau’s Supplemental poverty measure, one in five Californians live in poverty, 20.4 percent to be exact, compared to a national average of 14.7 percent, the highest rate of poverty in the nation.
By extension, California also has the distinction of having the highest child poverty rate in the nation, with an average of 22.8 percent of California’s children living in poverty in 2013-15, including 5.1 percent living in “deep poverty.”
On top of it all, California is also the home of a quarter of the country’s homeless.
It is unconscionable that a state can be as wealthy and purportedly progressive as California is and yet fail as much as California does.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...ons-california-is-unsustainable/#4d91a9c13a23
Forbes Apr 19, 2018, 12:42pm Thomas Del Beccaro
The Top Four Reasons California Is Unsustainable
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California is a place unlike any other on the Globe. It boasts perhaps the greatest natural resources of any state along with shining high-tech industries. However, like many good economic stories, government policies threaten its future.
Indeed, its government has made California unsustainable.
Of course, it wasn’t always this way. As the 1960s came to a close in California, it had a population of nearly twenty million. In the decade before, its economic strength afforded the construction of a vast State Water Project and higher education system that was the envy of the world. Matched with a majestic and trade friendly coastline, along with visionary business leaders, California’s future seemed secured.
No more – and here are the four major reasons California is at such great risk.
4. California's Infrastructure Deficit
3. Government Debt.
2. California’s Taxes and Regulations.
1. The California Governments.
Is there a silver lining in this story?
If you are living in one of the 49 other states, you should learn from the lesson that is California. If you are living in California, there is always the lesson of how Michigan came to be governed by a more centrist government. Of course, that came after the failure of the prior government. For now, however, for all its concern for sustainable foods and products, California is on a high-speed rail to unsustainability.
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