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Dictatorship USA – Run By A Plundering and Murderous Ruling Class — 2019 (477)

Rural Poverty in California: Hard Times in the Imperial Valley

From Slab City to the Gran Plaza, residents ”eke by” in the shadows of California agribusiness.

Capital & Main, June 13, 2019

Imperial County, east of San Diego County, is large and it is poor. Roughly 180,000 people live in towns and hamlets dotted around the 4,597 square miles of stark desert and agricultural land that make up the county. And while a few do very well—agribusiness is a multi-billion-dollar concern —many are struggling to make ends meet.

“Twenty percent are below the federal poverty level, and the numbers, we are sure, are probably double that if you include lack of access to health care and so on. Because so many are undocumented. There’s a lot of fear, especially now,” says Maribel Nunez of California Partnership.

More than one in six seniors in the county live in poverty. On fixed incomes, they struggle to pay their monthly bills, especially when the summer temperatures soar above 110 degrees, and monthly air-conditioning costs can run to several hundred dollars. About a third of the county’s children live in poverty.

The poverty in this southernmost part of the state is linked to the realities of living in a region where more resources are devoted to security and too few dollars are available for basic social services.

Desperately impoverished Mexicans and Central Americans continue to try to climb the fence; or they swim north through the toxic sludge of the New River.


“There’s a huge disparity between those who have means and the people who are struggling,” says Pastor Ron Griffen of the El Centro Methodist Church. A startlingly high number of Californians are struggling even as the state has been catapulted into its status as the world’s fifth largest economy.

The Imperial Valley is bedeviled by high levels of unemployment. During the Great Recession it touched 30 percent, and a decade later it still hovers near 20 percent. Even many who have work remain mired in poverty.

Drive through the city Calexico and you can see shuttered businesses everywhere.

“We’re all one paycheck away from being homeless. This is not a rich county,” explains Maribel Padilla. “Unless you’re a rancher, you’ve got no money. The city has no money. Nobody has any money.”

A growing number of homeless are living far off the beaten path. There is a huge, lawless, homeless encampment in the remote north of the county called Slab City. Dilapidated trailer park towns are strung along the eastern edge of the Salton Sea in the north of the county, where extreme poverty and homes in utter disrepair are juxtaposed against the stark desert mountains and the the Salton Sea. Pretty much every building and mobile home is broken down, waiting for the desert to return them to dust. The only food available comes from one or two overpriced bodegas, and access to services such as health care is pretty much nonexistent.

In the larger towns an increasing number of agricultural workers sleep in parks and city lots. With a high unemployment rate, it’s difficult to get a job. The community is starving for work.

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