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 in cheek—even if Democratic lawmakers and liberal magazine writers […]
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