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Creating a Better California for the Middle Class. Guest: Pete Peterson (CLIP)
Clip from Ashton Cohen: ELECTile Dysfunction Podcast. Ashton is joined by Pete Peterson. Pete is an expert on California politics and public policy and serves as the dean of Pepperdine’s School of Public Policy. Ashton and Pete discuss solutions to California's biggest problems which have resulted in a net migration of 1 million people moving out of California in the last decade (and 367,000 residents left California in 2021 alone).
Progressive politicians who run California declare that they are fighting for diverse, working class & middle class families. Yet as Peterson explains, most of the individuals who have left California over the last decade are working-class and middle-class families with minor children (and are disproportionately black and hispanic) while the relatively few people who have moved to California during the same time period are older, white Americans.
In addition, California ranks #49 out of the 50 states in income inequality, #49 in housing affordability, and California is home to half of the nation's homeless despite compromising only 12% of America's population. California also has the highest energy costs in the nation, highest taxes in the nation and students in California rank near the bottom of the nation (#45 out of the 50 states) in math and science proficiency.
How have progressives in California - who claim to represent the interests of the working class & the middle class - delivered the worst results in the nation for people in the stated socio-economic categories?
What can be done to fix California's numerous problems including homelessness, housing, taxation, costs of living and education? Ashton and Pete have a riveting discussion on the possible solutions to these problems.
#california #politics #homeless
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