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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: FAILED Progressive policy drives MASSIVE poverty urge in San Fran Bay Area
Description: Here we go again – another "wake-up call" from San Francisco as nearly 2 million Bay Area residents can't afford rent and poverty explodes by a quarter million people. But hey, let's just throw another billion taxpayer dollars at "affordable housing" that costs over $1 million per unit to build. What could go wrong?We break down how progressive policies created this disaster: 46% cost of living increases, $6 protein shakes, $100K now considered "low income," and businesses fleeing in droves. Meanwhile, they're blaming everything except the real culprit – layer after layer of taxes, regulations, and virtue-signaling policies that drove out employers and made it i...