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> Supplemental poverty rate: 20.4% (the highest) > Official poverty rate: 14.5% (16th highest) > Cost of living: 13.4% more than national avg. (3rd highest) > Uninsured rate: 7.3% (22nd lowest)
An estimated 2.3 million Californians live in poverty and are not counted in the state’s official poverty rate. When accounting for taxes, out-of-pocket medical costs, and overall cost of living, California’s poverty rate climbs from 14.5%, which is only slightly higher than average, to 20.4%, which is the highest supplemental poverty rate of any state.
A dearth of jobs compounded by a high cost of living are partially to blame. Housing costs are 47% higher in California than they are on average nationwide, and the overall cost of living in the state is 13% higher than it is on average nationwide. Meanwhile, some 5.1% of California’s workforce are out of a job, the sixth highest unemployment rate among states and well above the 4.2% U.S. unemployment rate
We are 6th highest in combined sales tax (which hurts the poor and middle class) at 8.25%, however in LA (me), SF, and most major metro areas the sales tax is 9.5 -10%.
California produces far more tax revenue than it takes. Many poor red states take more than they produce. California as a independent country could lower taxes and still maintain its programs. The red states would either have to raise taxes or cut services that many people depend on.
Have to get those tomatoes picked somehow! Slave wages require desperate people to take them..........
Oh there's that ignorantly fasle meme that they do the work nobody else wants to do.
Did you know:
-the average field picker earns more than $16 an hour?
-the construction trades have been decimated by illegal crews who have suppressed wages themselves
-makeup 80% of the service industry which are easy entry level non-skilled jobs which teens and college students used to dominate. 16-24 unemployment is at record highs still.
Please do a little research before posting a meme that has been debunked for years
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Originally Posted by BornintheSprings
No it wouldn't it has the largest GDP in the country. All the Red states would be crying for California to come back once there welfare check bounces.
Actually, no it (we) wouldn't. There would be no more Federal oversight and the former state would go full socialist, EXACTLY like Venezuela did. As T310 expressed, all the money would flee to the US.
Did you not see that we have 20% poverty rate? How does that jive with the largest GDP? CA is failing on so many levels.
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