"Liberal California and conservative Texas are different in many ways – including their poverty rates."
"California’s poverty rate is 20.4 percent and the Texas rate is only 14.7 percent, based on the Supplemental Poverty Measure, which accounts for the regional cost of living, out-of-pocket medical expenses and other items."
"Development fees, global warming carbon dioxide concerns, restrictive zoning, and other barriers act to create a massive artificial scarcity of housing in California. This pushes the cost of a home beyond reach for the middle class, while making rent virtually impossible for the poor."
https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/09/21/liberal-california-fails-at-fighting-poverty-conservative-texas-succeeds.amp.html
We are middle class, one income, 2 kids. We own our home and are about to put it on the market. It's not out of reach for middle class, you just need to have good budgeting skills and good credit. The poverty level may be higher here, but that's a pretty constant trend for CA.
ReplyDeleteThe socialist state of califucuornia has wanted the cast system to dominant here. Let's allow 10 million illegal to come our state, breed like rabbits, DEMAND free everything at the cost of the limited middle class. Mcdonalds was never meant to pay house buying wages so quit the constant bitching and whining. This is Sal Alinski tactics full blown! This state will always have the caste poor and the upper elite. Want to change for the good? Eliminate all the porkbelly loser Democrats and replace them with libertarians and constitutionalists. Endowment would end,clean sweep all the dam convicts into soilent green chips,deport the illegals,one way ticket druggies and dealers,close the borders, and charge tariffs on all imported crap from China!
ReplyDeleteAgree with anonymous here; middle class and able to afford a modest home, modest car. However, schools in Texas (at least the ones I'm familiar with) seem better funded than Calif. schools. But Texas shafted its own citizens with its rejection of ACA and Medicaid expansion; in that respect California treats its own better than the Lone Star state.
ReplyDeleteOh, and I forgot to add--being poor in either state stinks equally! Very difficult to find affordable housing that is both safe and secure.
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