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106 n sunrise Ave roseville (916) 783-2874
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• Tarot Card Readings • Crystals • Incense RosevIlle • Gifts Psychic Boutique • …and more! Call for appt • 916.519.9642 • 124 riverside ave, suite B
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Saturday Oct 19, 2019 • 1PM – 6PM Performances by: Sugar High • Mitsura Brasiliera Simple Creation • Fenix Drum & Dance Guest sPeakers:
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We need to reach out to Trump voters who The average rent for a small apartment in believe that the current American system is Sacramento is about $1,400 a month. A person rigged against them. This group should be working 40 hours per week at minimum wage part of any progressive coalition. Some of this makes $2,064 a month, pretax. Clearly, we group helped elect Barack Obama. have a problem. Even if everything goes right, In the last 20 years, those in the top 1% of there is hardly enough money left over for net worth have increased their share of our food, clothing, utilities, transportation and the country’s wealth from 30% to 39%. This is numerous other necessities of daily life. not because the wealthy in 2019 are that much And then when life happens—reduced hours smarter or harder working than the wealthy of at work, a speeding ticket, a burglary, a vet 1989. It is because the rules of the game were bill, a medical bill or any other unexpected changed by cutting taxes for the rich and letting expense—things can go quickly south, and a inflation reduce the minimum wage. hard-working person can find themselves in a We need a plan that reverses America’s desperate situation. And a parent with children trying to get by on minimum wage is in an even increasing income inequality and moves resources from the very wealthy to the poor and bigger mess. working class. In her presidential campaign, This is not just a Sacramento problem. It is Sen. Elizabeth Warren is proposing a policy an American problem. that would restore fair rules to the On the recent Sacramento Metro game. Her plan for a 2% wealth Chamber study mission in tax on the richest 75,000 Indianapolis, we learned how Americans could bring in as government agencies and local We need a plan that much as $2.75 trillion over corporations are raising money a 10-year period. Trillion! to help people who are chronireverses America’s There are some who cally unemployed despite increasing income react in horror. If the the booming economy. inequality and moves Warren plan had been in Last week, I was in Dallas, place since 1982, Amazon helping an anti-poverty group resources from the very founder Jeff Bezos would develop a publication to wealthy to the poor and only be worth $87 billion explain how local corporations working class. instead of $160 billion. and city government are estabHowever, I’m pretty sure lishing training programs to help Bezos would manage to drag 5,000 residents escape from poverty. himself to work knowing that he Here in Sacramento, Mayor Darrell would only earn a fortune of $87 billion. Steinberg and others are working to use Warren’s proposal would slowly move us money from a voter-approved increase in the sales back to an income equality level similar to tax for economic development in poorer neighborEuropean countries, and to what we had in hoods. All of these measures are important, but America only a few decades ago. We need to without changes in federal policy they will not be build a coalition and a political movement to enough. get us there. Ω In her thought-provoking book Political Tribes, Amy Chua explains that many rural whites believe that they have been excluded from diversity programs. There is no Ivy League program to benefit rural poor Christian white people. And this is one of the reasons Jeff vonKaenel is the president, CEO and majority owner of that this “tribe” went for Donald Trump in the News & Review. 2016, according to Chua.