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THREAD: Reporting or following news on @LAO_CA forecast? Let's keep the numbers in perspective.
State policymakers have choices about how to support the millions of Californians hit hardest by #COVID19 pandemic and recession - many who were hurting long before now. https://twitter.com/LAO_CA/status/1329124005228421121
State policymakers have choices about how to support the millions of Californians hit hardest by #COVID19 pandemic and recession - many who were hurting long before now. https://twitter.com/LAO_CA/status/1329124005228421121
What we learn (again and again) is we have a deeply unequal economy where wealthy Californians and corporations are thriving and Californians with low incomes are not. https://tracktherecovery.org/
TODAY, we must keep in mind too other important numbers and the people behind those numbers:
Over 930,000 Californians have tested positive for COVID-19 and nearly 18,000 have died more than eight months into the pandemic. #healthequity @CHCFNews https://www.chcf.org/blog/how-california-can-advance-health-equity-covid-19-era/
Over 930,000 Californians have tested positive for COVID-19 and nearly 18,000 have died more than eight months into the pandemic. #healthequity @CHCFNews https://www.chcf.org/blog/how-california-can-advance-health-equity-covid-19-era/
California lost a total of 2.6 million jobs – twice the number lost due to the Great Recession. And the majority of those jobs are still gone.
https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/californias-unemployment-remains-high/ @CalBudgetCenter @alissa_brie
https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/californias-unemployment-remains-high/ @CalBudgetCenter @alissa_brie
Nearly half of Black Californians and more than 4 in 10 Latinx Californians lived in households that spent more than 30% of their incomes toward housing.
@skimberCA @AureoMesquita https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/staying-home-during-californias-housing-affordability-crisis/
@skimberCA @AureoMesquita https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/staying-home-during-californias-housing-affordability-crisis/
More than 20% of Black and Latinx children in California do not have enough to eat.
https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/snap-calfresh-california-black-and-latinx-children-need-policymakers-to-act/
@RamosYamamoto
https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/snap-calfresh-california-black-and-latinx-children-need-policymakers-to-act/
@RamosYamamoto
So... comes back to investment in California we want for all, not the few.
How will CA leaders use revenues, and raise additional revenues, to help people have health care, housing, living wages and jobs, quality education, child care?
https://calbudgetcenter.medium.com/california-has-work-ahead-862a994730a1
@CalBudgetCenter
How will CA leaders use revenues, and raise additional revenues, to help people have health care, housing, living wages and jobs, quality education, child care?
https://calbudgetcenter.medium.com/california-has-work-ahead-862a994730a1
@CalBudgetCenter
