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Garage Logic

1/17 Wednesday Hour 2 -- Garage Logic with Joe Soucheray

Garage Logic

PodMN | Hubbard Radio

Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.43.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

What state has the most people living in poverty? Who it is will most likely surprise you! What will this state due to fix the problem? They aren't sure either. What is New California?

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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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