The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem

Re:The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem by notyourday on Thursday January 25, 2018 @01:12PM (#16233028)

I'm sorry, I have zero sympathy to people from Berkeley complaining. Considering the amount of money that Berkeley citizens collectively have and the progressive positions that they hold I am baffled why they do not add an addition $X thousand per year tax to everyone who makes more than a federal poverty level there to make sure that all out of luck homeless people have a real roof over their head, warm meals and medical care.

Unless of course the so called progressive population does not actually care that the middle of downtown Berkeley looks like a third world country.

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Re:The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem by bpicolo on Thursday January 25, 2018 @01:27PM (#16233188)

It's a mix yeah? Berkeley as a whole has a poverty rate 6% higher than the national average. .6% higher than Oakland.

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Re:The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem by notyourday on Thursday January 25, 2018 @02:06PM (#16233557)

2015 fiscal berkeley operating budget was 293 million.

https://www.cityofberkeley.info/Clerk/City_Council/2015/05_M...

2017 homeless number is about 1000:

http://www.dailycal.org/2017/05/29/berkeleys-homeless-popula...

If every one of them is provided a $3k/mo apartment, it would increase the budget by 36 million.

Berkeley population is estimated at 121k

http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/berkeley-ca-popul...

20% of berkeley population lives below powerty level. So lets say it is 100k that are left.

36M/100k is what? $360 per person? There, I just solved Berkeley homeless problem at a price of less than 5 bottles of Napa Valley Cab per person who screamed at the sky in the city of Berkeley the day Trump became President Elect.

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