Poverty: California leads the nation in poverty.
Sixty percent of California's public school children qualify for free school lunches because of poverty. Upbeat news releases from Washington D.C. and Sacramento cannot hide this. Big brother's top candidates assisted behind the scenes by the same operatives and their same old game plans, cannot make this issue go away by ignoring it. A short-sighted, bailout the wealthy, and trickle down policy of austerity can have no other effect than to further polarize the rich and the poor, stifle early education, create disrespect, and encourage negative behavior among those who might otherwise be encouraged to engage positively in democracy.
High-minded initiatives like PUBLIC BANK L.A. work to expand appropriate and sustainable financial opportunities to the poorest households and communities so they can lift themselves out of poverty. However, unless we choose a path of bold reform for our financially captured legislatures and achieve congressional oversight of international institutions that care not what happens to people, populist grassroots reform movements cannot gain sufficient traction.
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