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Gavin Newsom: “The worst job growth since 2013.”

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom Announces Homelessness And Mental Health Policy Reforms

Published March 2, 2026 | Video Starts at 43:44

Meaning the existing policies of this administration at the State of the Union offering no new strategies and no pivot from an economy that's slowing down with The worst job growth since 2013. inflation that is now going back up. The only saving grace was gas prices. And now they're spiking up. The markets are down. Crypto has collapsed. (43:44–43:48)

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Asserts that the current job growth is the worst since 2013.

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“When we initiated an effort to try to knit back investments, we highlighted that roughly 5,500 units exist today.”
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“They saw a double digit reduction here, 11% in Alameda county and we saw last year in the state of California almost double digit, 9% for…”
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“The Straits of vermia is about 20% of oil distribute 21 billion barrels a day that go through there.”
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“State of California was absent. State did not have a strategy for behavioral health.”
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“Did not have a strategy for integrating issues of substance abuse and mental health.”
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“Did not have a strategy to integrate housing.”
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“Did not have a strategy to support cities and counties as it relates to developing strategies to get people off the streets of sidewalks.”
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“The original sin is not just the lack of investment in behavioral health. It's a lack of investment in housing, period in the state.”
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“We created a new website, accountability.ca.gov.”
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“Alameda county is one of our success stories and we've highlighted them on the accountability.ca.gov website.”
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“There are counties that haven't gotten it done like Santa Clara County.”
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“I'm happy to redirect every damn penny in these programs to the counties that are getting things done.”
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“The federal government doesn't give a damn about this. They demagogue it.”
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“Trump administration could care less about this. Doing not a damn thing on affordability.”
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“We created a homeless accountability unit.”
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“We sued one city [Huntington Beach]... put 46 other cities on notice.”
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“6.2 petitions per 100,000 residents is a specific numeric [benchmark for CARE Court].”
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“I'm happy to sweep every damn dollar and redirect it to those... pay for performance.”
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“Counties are required under state law to implement CARE Court.”
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“Four service members died today, and Donald Trump spent more time talking about his ballroom than he did about the loss of those lives.”
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“Energy prices are up across the globe. Oil prices are up. Gas prices are going up.”
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“He's cutting food stamps because he says he can't find money.”
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“He's cutting taxes to the most well healed and well off.”
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“He's cutting Medicaid programs.”
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“Inflation that is now going back up.”
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