K-12 Tax & $pending Climate: Federal Expenditure Growth
Between January 2020 and December 2025, California added 249,920 establishments and 580,862 jobs in healthcare and social assistance, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. These industries accounted for 98% of the state’s private job growth during that period. The state’s biggest source of new jobs has been “individual and family services”—i.e., social work.
California has 12% of the U.S. population, 62% of its individual- and family-service establishments and 28% of the sector’s employment. Many of these entities are nonprofits run by progressives with advanced degrees in fields like urban planning, social work and public policy.
Progressive policies create social and economic dysfunctions—e.g., housing shortages and homelessness. Nonprofits lobby for taxpayer money to solve problems, only to exacerbate them instead. Rinse and repeat.
A report last week found that the number of people living on Los Angeles streets increased 7.9% compared with last year. Mayor Karen Bass (master’s in social work, University of Southern California) blamed President Trump and “funding cuts at the federal and state levels.”
“The Trump Administration has driven up the cost of gas, groceries, and rent—pushing more families to the edge—and slashed critical safety net funding,” she wrote. No mention that L.A. has been the country’s biggest beneficiary of federal money for homelessness. Or that 40% of the vagrants the city has put up in temporary housing wind up back on the streets, often because of drug addictions.
