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🗓️ 17 January 2018
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0:00.0 | You either of you know what is the which state in the union has the highest poverty rate? |
0:15.3 | Mississippi. I know the answer to this story. All right. It's not Mississippi. |
0:19.6 | Nope. California. Yep. Another cautionary tale on progressivism. |
0:26.8 | It's not it's not Mississippi. It's not New Mexico, West Virginia. One or it's California, |
0:35.7 | where nearly one out of five residents is in poverty. That's according to the census bureau's supplemental |
0:42.8 | poverty measure, which factors in the cost of housing food, utilities, clothing, and includes noncash |
0:49.8 | government assistance as a form of income. It's not as though California and the LA Times actually |
0:59.4 | did this story. It's not as though California policy makers have neglected to wage war on poverty. |
1:04.8 | Sacramento and local governments have spent massive amounts. Several state municipal benefit |
1:10.3 | programs overlap with one another. In some cases, individuals with incomes, 200 percent above the |
1:16.1 | poverty line receive benefits. In other words, they're screwing it up because they're incompetent. |
1:20.4 | Hmm. California state and local governments spent nearly 958 billion from 1992 through 2015 |
1:30.8 | on public welfare programs, including cash assistance, vendor payments, and other public welfare, |
1:36.5 | according to the census bureau of California. In the late 1980s and early 1900s, some states, |
1:43.6 | principally Wisconsin, Michigan, and Virginia, initiate a welfare reform as did the federal |
1:48.8 | government under President Clinton and a Republican Congress tied together by a common thread of |
1:54.1 | strong work requirements. These overhalls were a big success. Welfare roles plummeted and millions |
2:00.2 | of former aid recipients entered the labor force. The state and local bureaucracies that implemented |
2:08.0 | California's anti-poverty programs resisted any pro-work reforms. In fact, California recipients |
2:16.0 | of state aid receive a disproportionately large share of it in no strings attached cash |
2:22.5 | disbursements. Wow. It says though welfare reform passed California by leaving a dependency trap |
2:28.8 | in place. Immigrants are falling into it. 55 percent of immigrant families in this state |
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