Middle class must be higher priority for California leaders. Guest commentary by Raul Bocanegra @AsmBocanegra: https://t.co/LRXFAPggxM
— SoCalOpinion (@SoCalOpinion) April 27, 2017
...Since 2007, the loss of our manufacturing base has cost Los Angeles nearly 89,000 good-paying middle-class jobs. Those jobs have been replaced with service-sector jobs that pay less than half of the jobs they replaced. At the same time, Los Angeles County has seen poverty rates climb, the middle class shrink, housing affordability grow beyond the grasp of working people, and homelessness hit crisis proportions. Our “middle class” is slipping away into a world of haves and have-nots....
CA called sick man of America. https://t.co/mnYVrkHGdg #CAPolitics
— HJTA.org (@HJTA) April 28, 2017
