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Newsom to Struggling Parents: ‘Forget Rent and Groceries—Here’s a Box of Overpriced State Diapers’

California is the most unaffordable state in the union, where the cost of living is a punishing 11 percent above the national average. Rents for an ordinary two-bedroom apartment average $2,200–$2,700 monthly statewide. Gas prices flirt with $6.16 per gallon—the highest in the nation—while electricity rates hover at 33–35 cents per kilowatt-hour, nearly double the U.S. average. 

Factor in groceries, childcare, and healthcare and the result is California’s shameful status as the state with the highest cost-of-living-adjusted poverty rate in the country and a homelessness crisis with more than 180,000 people living on the streets. 

Families are fleeing in droves, packing up U-Haul trucks, and heading for cheaper lives in Texas, Nevada, and Arizona. This disaster, of course, is entirely of Sacramento’s own making.

Yet faced with these crushing realities, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has chosen to ride to the rescue with 400 free diapers at hospital discharge—his big and bold idea that will surely turn the tide and save California.

Yes, really. This is not satire. This is official state policy. Behold the glorious “Golden State Start” program, rolling out this summer at 65–75 hospitals, mostly serving Medi-Cal families. New parents will receive a shiny box of state-branded diapers courtesy of the politically connected nonprofit Baby2Baby. No pesky income test. No boring paperwork. Just 400 government-approved diapers to kick off that beautiful California newborn journey.

The price tag for taxpayers: $7.4 million already spent, and another $12.5 million requested, for a grand total approaching $20........

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