When word spreads of the new program, the number of "poor" will dramatically rise. Stockton declared bankruptcy in 2012 resulting from pension costs and a 15-year spending binge. [...]
Stockton is the county seat of San Joaquin County and is sort of the outer reaches of the San Francisco Bay Area metro. When I lived in San Francisco in the 80s, I didn't know much about Stockton other than it's where Chris Isaak came from. Today the population is over 300,000 and the city has had some really bad raps in recent years:
