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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: Newsom’s $236 MILLION Mental Health Flop: Helped JUST 22 People in 4 Years
Description: California spent $236 million on Gavin Newsom's Care Court program—supposedly a "completely new paradigm" to get the severely mentally ill off the streets and into treatment. The result? A whopping 22 people were involuntarily placed into care. That's $10.7 million per person. Even if you count the 684 voluntary participants (which completely misses the program's entire point), you're still looking at $345,000 per person. Meanwhile, California has over 187,000 homeless people, many with severe mental illness who desperately need help.Newsom's office insists they've helped thousands, but the numbers tell a different story. Critics call it exactly what it is: a costly bureaucratic maze ru...