Democrats want to fight poverty, but don’t value work

SACRAMENTO – Get ready to pop the cork on a bottle of Champagne. As the American Prospect reported earlier this month, California — where a highest-in-the-nation one in five people is poor, according to the Census Bureau’s cost-of-living-based standard — might be on the verge of doing “something that’s never before happened in the United States: eliminate childhood deep poverty.”
The Legislature simply needs to pass a variety of multibillion-dollar propo