The consequences of impoverishing the already impoverished
June 4, 2009 (posted by Webdog)A few weeks ago the Washington Post gave us all a course in Poverty Economics 101, explaining why “you have to be rich to be poor.” The bad news in California is that it looks like the poor will need to be even “richer” than they are now, as the budget crisis in California deepens and proposals are on the table to eliminate the entire CalWORKs (TANF) program.
The consequences of such a decision, if made? The non-partisan California Budget Project (CBP) continues to cut through the economic babel and in recent days has published several focused fact sheets about the practical, economic consequences of the budget proposals being considered. One includes a simple but pointed summary that the proposal to eliminate CalWORKs in California would affect more than 1.4 million low-income children and their parents.
Real consequences for real people.