SACRAMENTO – Get ready to pop the cork on a bottle of Champagne. As the American Prospect reported earlier this month, California — where a highest-in-the-nation one in five people is poor, according to the Census Bureau’s cost-of-living-based standard — might be on the verge of doing “something that’s never before happened in the United States: eliminate childhood deep poverty.”
The Legislature simply needs to pass a variety of multibillion-dollar proposals — expanding Medi-Cal, funding universal preschool, investing “major sums” in affordable housing — that Gov. Gavin Newsom has included in his first budget. Obviously, my tongue is firmly planted […]
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