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> There are over 3 million Californians in households making under $25.5k/year Sounds like that's a problem that's largely orthogonal to covid19, and results m
by rualca 6y ago
> There are over 3 million Californians in households making under $25.5k/year
Sounds like that's a problem that's largely orthogonal to covid19, and results mainly by the US's attitude to income inequality and systemic poverty and consequently it's attitude towards ensuring citizens have a decent quality of life.
- sthnblllII 6y agoIs Zimbabwe's poverty because they have a bad "attitude towards income inequality"? How unequal was California when Ronald Regan was governor and before his 1986 amnesty?
- edmundsauto 6y agoWhat was his 1986 amnesty? Hadn’t he been President for one term at that point?
- masonic 6y agoIt's a reference to IRCA (Simpson-Mazzoli), which had passed Congress with substantial majorities (> 2/3 in the Senate). It wasn't a Reagan Executive Order.
- sthnblllII 6y agoHe supported it and signed it into law. It's very unlikely Congress would have passed it if Regan had opposed it.