Nationwide, there are nearly 554,000 homeless people, a 1 percent increase over last year. More than one-quarter of the total homeless population, or about 114,000, lives in California. According to the New York Times, California is responsible for the increase in the nationwide figure, due to "the dramatic surge in West Coast cities.
What gives out in Cali? Stupendous wealth in various coastal enclaves and a rapidly shrinking middle class that's giving way to the equally rapidly growing poor.
What? Do all those Silicon Valley billionaires and Hollywood moguls just step over the poor lying before them, all while sending out their latest tweet on how super-sweet Cali's high-speed rail is going to be, once they get control of cost overruns, that is (currently, the project's going to cost $8 billion, 27 percent more than original projections). How about they throw some of that money toward the poor on their own doorstep?
California Today: State’s Homeless Population Drives National Increase - The New York Times
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."
What gives out in Cali? Stupendous wealth in various coastal enclaves and a rapidly shrinking middle class that's giving way to the equally rapidly growing poor.
What? Do all those Silicon Valley billionaires and Hollywood moguls just step over the poor lying before them, all while sending out their latest tweet on how super-sweet Cali's high-speed rail is going to be, once they get control of cost overruns, that is (currently, the project's going to cost $8 billion, 27 percent more than original projections). How about they throw some of that money toward the poor on their own doorstep?
California Today: State’s Homeless Population Drives National Increase - The New York Times
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."