A new report from the United Ways of California shows that 35% of households across the state – more than 3.8 million – don’t earn enough to cover basic living expenses.
And I bet this is below the national average. Wealthiest country on Earth people. We rock.
Yet Newsome keeps approving PG&E rate hikes for record shareholder profits. We need publicly held utilities and healthcare California should be leading the way but we’re stuck with this corrupt pro corporate clown governor
That’s not shocking seeing as most of the country is in the same situation. I genuinely wonder how bad things are gonna get when people can’t afford basic shit anymore.
Uh, I have about 4 months of rent left in my bank, a couple rejection messages from companies kind enough to reply, and desperately gathering scratch from inconsistent under-the-table labor.
I’ll let you know.
… Well, as long as I pay my Internet bill …
I really hope you manage to get back on your feet somehow. Wishing you the best
no shit son
Might be about time for some change in CA?
I’m so confused. Do you think just because they keep going for democratic president candidates that Democrats are the problem?
I’d be more interested in seeing the governors list.
But setting that aside, the COL should be shown alongside the average income because just COL is disengious and doesn’t show the whole picture.
High cost of living is also largely influenced by people’s desire to live there. It’s very likely that the Democrats are the fucking reason people WANT to be there.
Republicans might lower cost of living but only because everyone starts to fucking leave.
What does “abolish landlords” look like in practise? What is that slogan suggesting exactly?
I haven’t seen that used as a motto by a consistent group that might also have a longer explainer.
But, presumably, it would force all rental agreements to be replaced with mortgages. Presumably, hotel/motels could still provide long-term non-mortgage housing, but they have a good amount of regulation and generally provide services currently landlords do not.
Alternatively, it might be non-literal motto that doesn’t want to abolish landlords, but rather to more severely regulate them.
Keep voting for the same people that your state has had in charge for 30 years, that’s definitely going to fix the problems that have been getting worse and worse.
unless your living in a rural area where its LCOL, thinking republicans will change, they wont they will make renting worst. nimbyism and zoning laws are the main issues in cali.
The point is that Democrats have been in charge for 30+ years, and things have been going downhill consistently rather than getting better, so what other option do you have? Just keep voting for the guys who have been in charge while cost of living spiraled and the housing market went insane and homelessness skyrocketed etc? What good is that doing?
