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During the semester, I shall post course material and students will comment on it. Students are also free to comment on any aspect of American politics, either current or historical. There are only two major limitations: no coarse language, and no derogatory comments about people at the Claremont Colleges. This blog is on the open Internet, so post nothing that you would not want a potential employer to see. Syllabus: http://gov20h.blogspot.com/2023/08/draft-introduction-to-american-politics.html

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

California, Texas, and Inequality

 For Thursday, finish Miller.

DeSantis on CA:

TAXES AND DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS


California income tax: Top 1 percent of taxpayers now generate half of personal income tax receipts.





  • Texas 5.1%
  • California: 17.6%





Guns in TX




Guns in CA: Miller 237-238




Alike in many ways, but whites have different attitudes (scroll down in article)






In new results provided exclusively to The Atlantic, [Michael] Podhorzer calculates that the economic output per capita and the median family income are both now 27 percent higher in the blue section than in the red, while the share of children in poverty is 27 percent higher in the red states. The share of people without health insurance is more than 80 percent higher in the red states than in the blue, as are the rates of teen pregnancy and maternal death in childbirth. The homicide rate across the red states is more than one-third higher than in the blue, and the rate of death from firearms is nearly double in the red. Average life expectancy at birth is now about two and a half years higher in the blue states. On most of these measures, the purple states fall between red and blue.




Opportunity Atlas and Mapping Inequality

The future of racial and ethnic politics:







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