While the benefits of this push are hard to identify, the costs of the state’s failure to address other problems effectively are not. California has the nation’s highest cost-adjusted poverty rate; its second-highest rate ofunemployment; and roughly half its homeless population.

While the benefits of this push are hard to identify, the costs of the state’s failure to address other problems effectively are not. California has the nation’s highest cost-adjusted poverty rate; its second-highest rate ofunemployment; and roughly half its homeless population.

— RealClearInvestigations (@RCInvestigates) April 3, 2025