I was born in the top 3 empoverished states, I live in another top 3, and whaddya know, my employer is based in the third. If I came across this article in the wild, I'd check the privacy settings on my browser thinking it's a AI-generated Farticle (Fake Article) created from my own metadata. Unreal. But yet, it's true. Last week I couldn't pay for my 1 measly city college class, so I put it on the only credit card that isn't maxed out. Most days I feel like that rubber toy from the 80's Stretch Armstrong. Big smile and streeeeetch those finances!
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By average not by extremes. I think a few years ago a UN Special Report revealed startling examples of extreme poverty in several places in the USA.
A couple of decades ago I was driving around New Mexico sightseeing and drove into a reservation. The poverty I saw hits really hard even now
A couple of years ago my wife was driving through New Mexico on a cross-country road trip (I had to fly due to another work trip bookending the vacation) and a truck fire forced a detour through Albuquerque, and she said the poverty she saw on the little bit of Albuquerque they drove through was insane. Described seeing presumably homeless people high out of their minds in the street, and other homeless people shooting up. And still others painfully sober and aware of their situation
Housing insecurity truly exhibits itself very differently in different places. Where we live it's not folks living in worn out tents or ramshackle shelters built from trash, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist
lol. I got the fuck out of there finally. Sink FL, Sink!
Nooooo I can't leave until next summer. Stay up for a little longer Florida!
Just get to whichever blue state you're able to afford to get to. It might be CO. Poverty is a policy choice. People want to bitch and moan about property costs in CO but I'd happily pay those costs under a presumption that I'll sooner or later have some equity out of those costs.
In FL, a huge chunk of your COL is insurance and power bills. The power company feeds like 20% of their income into GOP election campaigns. You literally need to leave the state in order for Republicans to lose their campaign finances.
Desantis and his wife were money laundering and taking kick backs from Medicaid through his wife's charity.
As DeSantis administration officials scrambled last year to craft a Medicaid overbilling settlement that diverted millions to the Hope Florida Foundation, lawyers for healthcare contractor Centene and the Florida Attorney General’s Office tried to distance their clients from the agreement, a trove of newly released records shows.
Over 22 days in September, then-Chief Deputy Attorney General John Guard repeatedly removed references to his office in drafts of the settlement passed among negotiators.
Centene’s lawyers inserted language emphasizing that the company was “directed by the state” to donate $10 million of its $67 million settlement to the foundation. The attorneys insisted that Florida’s Office of Inspector General or attorney general be mentioned in the agreement.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article311619075.html (look up Florida Hope scandal and there's tons more)
Hope Florida charity paid for hotel rooms, perks for DeSantis officials
It wasn't the first time the Hope Florida Foundation, which benefits a program spearheaded by Florida first lady Casey DeSantis, has failed to file key paperwork. In April, its board president told state lawmakers that the charity had not filed any tax returns, created a budget or conducted audits required by law.
The charity is under investigation after diverting $10 million from a settlement with the state's largest Medicaid contractor to a pair of nonprofits that then gave millions to a political committee.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article308664570.html
Rick Scott had big shoes for DeSantis to fill. He kept up figuratively with the fraud but literally his shoes are clownish.
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Blue states need to stop paying taxes. Taxation without representation no bueno. We can take the immigrants an ya’ll can have your theocratic dictatorship run by the imbecile pedo con man.
You're gonna get Gilead with that playbook
It’s becoming giliad without the resistance. We need the resistance
I mean by spitting red states and blue states. You definitely need to resist, and way more than has taken place
ya’ll can have your theocratic dictatorship
Nope, give them that and they'll use it as base of operations for perpetually harassing the rest of us because their politics don't work unless they're always on the attack, we have to actually deal with Republicans and neutralize their ability to harm us
Fair point but it doesn’t seem like we’re going to neutralize anything at this point and it’s worrying
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Trouble is as long as this is together, the red states will continue to play just like the Confederates pre-Civil War.
Notice Confederate states were/are all about "StAtEs RiGhTs", and they broke off because evil Lincoln was gonna come use the federal government to take control.... when before they were passing the fugitive slave acts where they could strongarm abolitionist states through the federal government to be forced to allow their people to hunt down runaway slaves (and go ahead and "accidentally" capture a few non-slave blacks).
The red states will do this again, no matter what.
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Shit states lead to shit lives. It's not hard.
They have to deflect from their failed states by attacking the successful states like California and New York.
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@MicroWave When you have corrupt Governors and lawmakers that’s what you get. When will the people there learn?
it's gerrymandered all to shit and they're about to make it worse. that combined with the defeated attitude of registered but non-voting democrats and the lack of strong leadership further enhances the supression.
Democrats need to leave the state. FL needs to lose electoral votes.
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Geez, red states don't make enough money and spend too much...
Mmmmm, where are all these fiscally savvy Republicans who make sure that the common man can see their taxes spent responsibly?
Oh yeah, that's right, they're all lying thieves who only entich themselves. The more Christian a politician claims themselves to be the bigger the thievery and lying. This says a lot about Florida and Texas.
California pays the bills for just about every red state out there. Fuck these states, let them burn..
Go fash lose cash
Fucking welfare states /s
Living in Texas myself, I've applied for and never gotten any kind of government assistance many times throughout my life. The one time I was able to get unemployment benefits, they gave me $500 one month and told me to pay it back two weeks later. I hate this state and truly wish I was able to move.
Same, I applied of for food stamps and medicaid after my kid was born. My kid got medicaid, we did not. I got 50$ a month, that's like half a single grocery trip. I called saying "this must not be right" The lady belittle me saying "do you know how food stamps works?!"
I was telling my ex we need to get out for years, and with a kid I don't think she'll budge. The temptation to grab my kid and go is growing, but her job as spa receptionists and "opertunity to grow" is more important.
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Keep voting for trump ya bunch of dipshits
thats what happens if your state depends on TOURISM, and mostly farm work, and retirees that dont pay taxes.
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As somebody from Upstate NY, I can’t say I feel too bad for them. The south has been holding this country back for decades tbh...
Alaska’s high rating could very well have something to do with the Permanent Dividend Fund that every resident receives.
But honestly, this ranking does feel like just another way to keep the masses arguing amongst themselves over which political ideology or state is right; rather than focusing efforts on the ones at the very top sucking up all the wealth from the rest of us.
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Can we just break up the country already? Let the Jesusland states go wallow in their stupidity and let the rest of must continue on into the 21st century.
Fuck the red states.
Not everyone in these states are Republican. Check out the results for any major city on them.
That's why Texas Rs are hellbent on gerrymandering. Otherwise of it was fair and square they will lose.
Yup. There are good people in those states and we should help them leave. There is no good future in red states. We should let them wither and die or let them leave. They are a cancer.
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Well I'm sure their wise investments in apartheid, genocide, etc. will certainly pay off. \s \s \s
Seriously tho the default is the point. It's profitable for them monetarily and ideologically.
We, especially palestinians, are all going to continue to pay the bill for these delusional wackjobs.
Brown people! They came illegally, stole all the jobs, and now they've taken the economy too. Those black people probably need to go to rebalance thelosses. Maybe the white Christian holyland needs to purge the Jews and other non beleivers too? [predicting the MAGA playlist based upon world history]
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With the party of financial responsibility at the helm, of course.
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