PPIC found that the higher death rate has disproportionately affected non-white Californians, particularly Latino and Black residents. The Public Policy Institute of California crunched the numbers and discovered that not only did COVID-19 kill about 100,000 Californians but that the state’s life expectancy, which had been tied for the nation’s highest with Hawaii at 80.9 years, has dropped by two years – the first such decline since World War II. Several new studies add even more evidence that the steps taken by the state to combat COVID-19 will have long-term negative impacts.īorn in the nic(otine) of time: California legislators move to ban tobacco products for Gen-Z and beyond The “achievement gap” that has long plagued California’s public school system widened even further, recent research has found. School shutdowns, and the fitful efforts to continue instruction via the internet, had a devastating effect on students, especially those from poor families which lacked technology and whose parents could not work from home. Some qualified for unemployment insurance, but a managerial meltdown at the state Employment Development Department delayed, sometimes for months, benefits for legitimate claimants while EDD handed out billions of dollars to fraudsters. Upper-income Californians could do their jobs from home but lower-income service workers simply lost their jobs.
The downtowns of the state’s larger cities – including the state capital, Sacramento – were hollowed out and have not, in the main, recovered.Ĭalifornia’s stark divide between haves and have-nots grew wider. With work-at-home the growing norm, restaurants and other businesses dependent on concentrated employment were clobbered. While the state has, on paper, recovered all of the jobs it lost, countless small businesses that shut their doors have not reopened. Nearly 3 million Californians lost their jobs due to the shutdown orders.
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