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Click on the first one to see it full size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"visually_embed\">\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/09/americans-versus-the-electoral-college_50291a66d98a51.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"visually_embed_infographic\" src=\"http://thumbnails.visually.netdna-cdn.com/americans-versus-the-electoral-college_50291a66d98a5_w587.jpeg\" alt=\"Americans Versus the Electoral College\" width=\"587\" height=\"352\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"visually_embed_bar\">\u003cspan class=\"visually_embed_cycle\">\u003cspan>by \u003c/span> \u003ca href=\"http://www.good.is/\" target=\"_blank\">GOOD\u003c/a>.Learn about \u003ca href=\"http://visual.ly/learn/infographic-design/\">infographic design\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"visually_embed_bar\">\u003c!--more-->\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"visually_embed\">\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/09/the-electoral-college-is-weird_50290f0593899.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"visually_embed_infographic\" src=\"http://thumbnails.visually.netdna-cdn.com/data-americana_50291429d8286_w587.jpg\" alt=\"Data Americana\" width=\"587\" height=\"1355\">\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"visually_embed_cycle\">\u003cspan>\u003cbr>\nby \u003c/span> \u003ca href=\"http://uxblog.idvsolutions.com\" target=\"_blank\">johnmnelson\u003c/a>.Browse more \u003ca href=\"http://visual.ly\">data visualization\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"visually_embed\">\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/09/how-romney-could-win-the-popular-vote-but-lose-the-election_504e81194ca80.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"visually_embed_infographic\" src=\"http://thumbnails.visually.netdna-cdn.com/how-romney-could-win-the-popular-vote-but-lose-the-election_504e81194ca80_w587.jpg\" alt=\"How Romney Could Win the Popular Vote, but Lose the Election\" width=\"587\" height=\"1085\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"visually_embed_bar\">\u003cspan class=\"visually_embed_cycle\">Learn about \u003ca href=\"http://visual.ly/learn/data-visualization-tools/\">data visualization tools\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","disqusIdentifier":"3878 http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/?p=3878","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2012/09/21/two-clear-infographics-that-help-visualize-americas-abstract-electoral-system/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":77,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":6},"modified":1456860949,"excerpt":null,"headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Elections aren't supposed to be super complicated. 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Four Key Characteristics of California's Prison Population","title":"Who Do We Lock Up? Four Key Characteristics of California's Prison Population","headTitle":"The Lowdown | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>Who's actually behind bars in California? Four key characteristics of California's prison population:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>Geography\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>The majority of inmates come from the southern part of the state. A whopping 50,000 – or 34 percent of all prisoners – come from Los Angeles County alone. But the highest incarceration rates are concentrated in poorer counties in the Central Valley and the Inland Empire. Leading the charge is Kings County in the San Joaquin Valley, where nearly 1 percent of the entire population is in state prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click on the map below for info on the number of prisoners who come from each county in California, what percent of the prison population each county contributes, and what percent of each county's total population is in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://geocommons.com/maps/193229/embed\" width=\"80%\" height=\"550\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Reports_Research/Offender_Information_Services_Branch/Annual/Census/CENSUSd1112.pdf\">CDCR 2011 data\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Race\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>The majority of prisoners are non-white. The largest group is Hispanic. But African Americans – who make up less than 7 percent of the general population and almost 30 percent of the prison population - are dramatically more likely to be imprisoned than any other group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/08/prison-stats.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" size-full wp-image-10371 aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/08/prison-stats.jpg\" alt=\"prison stats\" width=\"552\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2012/08/prison-stats.jpg 552w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2012/08/prison-stats-400x260.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2012/08/prison-stats-320x208.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Source:\u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_show.asp?i=702\" target=\"_blank\"> Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a> (using 2010 CDCR and 2010 Census data)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>Age\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>The prison population is aging. Currently nearly 20 percent of inmates are age 50 and up, about quadruple the rate from 20 years ago. Meanwhile, the percent of prisoners under age 25 has steadily dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg style=\"border: 0px none\" src=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/oimg?key=0Ark5K5szJsMSdEdldlFLeUxQaE9wNHpHZWFXT3I3V2c&oid=6&zx=yg6msfmjk1yv\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"371\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/News/docs/2011_Annual_Report_FINAL.pdf\">CDCR 2010 data\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>Gender\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s prison population is overwhelmingly male. Men make up nearly 95 percent of all inmates. 30 of the system’s 33 facilities are for men.\u003cbr>\n\u003cimg style=\"border: 0px none\" src=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/oimg?key=0Ark5K5szJsMSdEdldlFLeUxQaE9wNHpHZWFXT3I3V2c&oid=4&zx=7esrf1yj6wro\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"371\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/News/docs/2011_Annual_Report_FINAL.pdf\">CDCR 2010 data\u003c/a> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"3511 http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/?p=3511","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2012/08/31/who-do-we-lock-up-in-california-four-key-characteristics-of-our-prison-population/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":267,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":["http://geocommons.com/maps/193229/embed"],"paragraphCount":15},"modified":1432335434,"excerpt":null,"headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Who's actually behind bars in California? Four key characteristics of California's prison population:","title":"Who Do We Lock Up? Four Key Characteristics of California's Prison Population | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Who Do We Lock Up? Four Key Characteristics of California's Prison Population","datePublished":"2012-08-31T16:30:26-07:00","dateModified":"2015-05-22T15:57:14-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"who-do-we-lock-up-in-california-four-key-characteristics-of-our-prison-population","status":"publish","path":"/lowdown/3511/who-do-we-lock-up-in-california-four-key-characteristics-of-our-prison-population","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Who's actually behind bars in California? Four key characteristics of California's prison population:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>Geography\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>The majority of inmates come from the southern part of the state. A whopping 50,000 – or 34 percent of all prisoners – come from Los Angeles County alone. But the highest incarceration rates are concentrated in poorer counties in the Central Valley and the Inland Empire. Leading the charge is Kings County in the San Joaquin Valley, where nearly 1 percent of the entire population is in state prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click on the map below for info on the number of prisoners who come from each county in California, what percent of the prison population each county contributes, and what percent of each county's total population is in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://geocommons.com/maps/193229/embed\" width=\"80%\" height=\"550\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Reports_Research/Offender_Information_Services_Branch/Annual/Census/CENSUSd1112.pdf\">CDCR 2011 data\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Race\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>The majority of prisoners are non-white. The largest group is Hispanic. But African Americans – who make up less than 7 percent of the general population and almost 30 percent of the prison population - are dramatically more likely to be imprisoned than any other group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/08/prison-stats.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" size-full wp-image-10371 aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/08/prison-stats.jpg\" alt=\"prison stats\" width=\"552\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2012/08/prison-stats.jpg 552w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2012/08/prison-stats-400x260.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2012/08/prison-stats-320x208.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Source:\u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_show.asp?i=702\" target=\"_blank\"> Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a> (using 2010 CDCR and 2010 Census data)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>Age\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>The prison population is aging. Currently nearly 20 percent of inmates are age 50 and up, about quadruple the rate from 20 years ago. Meanwhile, the percent of prisoners under age 25 has steadily dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg style=\"border: 0px none\" src=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/oimg?key=0Ark5K5szJsMSdEdldlFLeUxQaE9wNHpHZWFXT3I3V2c&oid=6&zx=yg6msfmjk1yv\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"371\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/News/docs/2011_Annual_Report_FINAL.pdf\">CDCR 2010 data\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>Gender\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s prison population is overwhelmingly male. Men make up nearly 95 percent of all inmates. 30 of the system’s 33 facilities are for men.\u003cbr>\n\u003cimg style=\"border: 0px none\" src=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/oimg?key=0Ark5K5szJsMSdEdldlFLeUxQaE9wNHpHZWFXT3I3V2c&oid=4&zx=7esrf1yj6wro\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"371\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/News/docs/2011_Annual_Report_FINAL.pdf\">CDCR 2010 data\u003c/a> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/lowdown/3511/who-do-we-lock-up-in-california-four-key-characteristics-of-our-prison-population","authors":["1263"],"categories":["lowdown_256","lowdown_242","lowdown_2374"],"tags":["lowdown_31","lowdown_281","lowdown_164","lowdown_33","lowdown_96"],"featImg":"lowdown_18044","label":"lowdown"},"lowdown_3291":{"type":"posts","id":"lowdown_3291","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"lowdown","id":"3291","score":null,"sort":[1345166506000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"lowdown"},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1345166506,"format":"aside","disqusTitle":"Is California's Prison Realignment Experiment Working?","title":"Is California's Prison Realignment Experiment Working?","headTitle":"The Lowdown | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>Depends whom you ask (real helpful, huh?).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the one hand, the state \u003cem>has\u003c/em> significantly reduced its prison population since realignment went into effect last October. At the end of September 2011, there were 144,456 inmates in the state's 33 prisons, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Reports_Research/Offender_Information_Services_Branch/Monthly/Monthly_Tpop1a_Archive.html\" target=\"_blank\">California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation\u003c/a>. (Note: that does not represent California's total prison population, which also includes prisoners in in-state and out-of-state private facilities, and those in work camps).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's 33 prisons are designed to hold about 80,000 prisoners (based on one inmate/cell). So at the start of realignment, the prisons were at about 180% overcapacity.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_3373\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 389px\">\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ark5K5szJsMSdDNiYlhiRTFScXFBemppNjY1bjJyNVE#gid=2\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-3373\" title=\"Prison Pop Graph\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/08/Prison-Pop-Graph1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2012/08/Prison-Pop-Graph1-400x247.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2012/08/Prison-Pop-Graph1-320x198.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data source: CDCR (click on the chart above to see the interactive version)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By the end of July 2012 the inmate population had been reduced to just over 120,000, or 150 percent of capacity. So over the last ten months, California's 33 prisons shed more than 24,000 inmates. And that puts the system within reach of meeting its court-ordered goal of getting population down to about 110,000 (or 137.5 percent capacity) by June 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All in all, sounds pretty good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are some skeptics, however. who are likely to point out several factors that might detract from this record of success. For one, much of the reduction - about 30 percent - took place within the first three months of realignment. But that trend has slowed, casting some doubt as to whether the June 13 goal can actually be met.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also at issue is the burden that realignment has placed on many county jails throughout the state. New low-level offenders are now mostly serving out sentences in county jail facilities, many of which have limited space and are not equipped to hold inmates for long periods of time. In the first four months after realignment went into effect, the jail populations in a number of counties across the state skyrocketed . The trend isn't universal, but it increased overcrowding in various county facilities. (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2012/08/16/shouldering-the-burden-californias-new-jail-boom-interactive-map/\" target=\"_blank\">Check out the interactive map\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rising jail population also raises the question of whether California's realignment experiment is actually reforming the state's beleaguered prison system or just serving as a quick-fix. Nearly as many non-violent, low-level offenders are still being thrown behind bars for lengthy terms; it's just that more of them are now being packed into county jails rather than state prisons.\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"3291 http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/?p=3291","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2012/08/16/is-californias-prison-realignment-experiment-working/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":410,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":10},"modified":1432168668,"excerpt":null,"headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Depends whom you ask (real helpful, huh?). On the one hand, the state has significantly reduced its prison population since realignment went into effect last October. At the end of September 2011, there were 144,456 inmates in the state's 33 prisons, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. (Note: that does not represent","title":"Is California's Prison Realignment Experiment Working? | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Is California's Prison Realignment Experiment Working?","datePublished":"2012-08-16T18:21:46-07:00","dateModified":"2015-05-20T17:37:48-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"is-californias-prison-realignment-experiment-working","status":"publish","path":"/lowdown/3291/is-californias-prison-realignment-experiment-working","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Depends whom you ask (real helpful, huh?).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the one hand, the state \u003cem>has\u003c/em> significantly reduced its prison population since realignment went into effect last October. At the end of September 2011, there were 144,456 inmates in the state's 33 prisons, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Reports_Research/Offender_Information_Services_Branch/Monthly/Monthly_Tpop1a_Archive.html\" target=\"_blank\">California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation\u003c/a>. (Note: that does not represent California's total prison population, which also includes prisoners in in-state and out-of-state private facilities, and those in work camps).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's 33 prisons are designed to hold about 80,000 prisoners (based on one inmate/cell). So at the start of realignment, the prisons were at about 180% overcapacity.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_3373\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 389px\">\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ark5K5szJsMSdDNiYlhiRTFScXFBemppNjY1bjJyNVE#gid=2\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-3373\" title=\"Prison Pop Graph\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/08/Prison-Pop-Graph1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2012/08/Prison-Pop-Graph1-400x247.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2012/08/Prison-Pop-Graph1-320x198.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data source: CDCR (click on the chart above to see the interactive version)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By the end of July 2012 the inmate population had been reduced to just over 120,000, or 150 percent of capacity. So over the last ten months, California's 33 prisons shed more than 24,000 inmates. And that puts the system within reach of meeting its court-ordered goal of getting population down to about 110,000 (or 137.5 percent capacity) by June 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All in all, sounds pretty good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are some skeptics, however. who are likely to point out several factors that might detract from this record of success. For one, much of the reduction - about 30 percent - took place within the first three months of realignment. But that trend has slowed, casting some doubt as to whether the June 13 goal can actually be met.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also at issue is the burden that realignment has placed on many county jails throughout the state. New low-level offenders are now mostly serving out sentences in county jail facilities, many of which have limited space and are not equipped to hold inmates for long periods of time. In the first four months after realignment went into effect, the jail populations in a number of counties across the state skyrocketed . The trend isn't universal, but it increased overcrowding in various county facilities. (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2012/08/16/shouldering-the-burden-californias-new-jail-boom-interactive-map/\" target=\"_blank\">Check out the interactive map\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rising jail population also raises the question of whether California's realignment experiment is actually reforming the state's beleaguered prison system or just serving as a quick-fix. Nearly as many non-violent, low-level offenders are still being thrown behind bars for lengthy terms; it's just that more of them are now being packed into county jails rather than state prisons.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/lowdown/3291/is-californias-prison-realignment-experiment-working","authors":["1263"],"categories":["lowdown_2363","lowdown_2374"],"tags":["lowdown_31","lowdown_281","lowdown_32","lowdown_164","lowdown_33"],"featImg":"lowdown_851","label":"lowdown"},"lowdown_3048":{"type":"posts","id":"lowdown_3048","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"lowdown","id":"3048","score":null,"sort":[1343436913000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"lowdown"},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1343436913,"format":"aside","disqusTitle":"Who Votes in California? (Hint: it's not the majority)","title":"Who Votes in California? (Hint: it's not the majority)","headTitle":"The Lowdown | KQED News","content":"\u003ch6>Click each county on the map below for stats on California's eligible and registered voters, as well as a breakdown of political party affiliation (but keep in mind there's a big difference between registered and \"likely\" voters). The darker the shade, the higher the percentage of registered voters.\u003c/h6>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?viz=MAP&q=select+col1%3E%3E0+from+1DFB5DDttqMkLJnhu7OAYp23GUsAljwR2Hs8G8DU&h=false&lat=37.50867752579624&lng=-117.36038790624995&z=5&t=1&l=col1%3E%3E0\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch6>\u003cem>(Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_u.htm\" target=\"_blank\">California Secretary of State\u003c/a>, May 2012 data)\u003c/em>\u003c/h6>\n\u003cp>President Lyndon B. Johnson, who signed the Voting Rights Act into law in 1965, called voting \"the basic right, without which all others are meaningless.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in California - where nearly 24 million adults are eligible to vote - the number of people who actually take advantage of this right is surprisingly small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider these California voting stats (approximated):\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>24 million\u003c/strong>: People who are eligible to vote\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>17 million\u003c/strong>: People registered to vote (about 72% of those who are eligible)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>6 million\u003c/strong>: \"Likely voters\" (those who regularly vote)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>5.3 million\u003c/strong>: The number of votes cast in the June 2012 primary election\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_show.asp?i=255\" target=\"_blank\">Public Policy Institute of California \u003c/a>survey also found that California's \"likely voters\" are not representative of the state's racial and economic diversity. About 65 percent of them are white (even though whites make up only 44 percent of the state's adult population) and only 17 percent Latino (who make up about one-third of the state's population). Likely voters are also generally older, more educated, more affluent, and far more likely to own a home than the average Californian. And more than 80 percent were born in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more on how to register to vote and who is eligible, go \u003ca href=\"http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/new-voter/registering-vote.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"3048 http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/?p=3048","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2012/07/27/3048/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":271,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":["https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz"],"paragraphCount":8},"modified":1359759016,"excerpt":null,"headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Click each county on the map below for stats on California's eligible and registered voters, as well as a breakdown of political party affiliation (but keep in mind there's a big difference between registered and "likely" voters). The darker the shade, the higher the percentage of registered voters. (Source: California Secretary of State, May 2012","title":"Who Votes in California? (Hint: it's not the majority) | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Who Votes in California? (Hint: it's not the majority)","datePublished":"2012-07-27T17:55:13-07:00","dateModified":"2013-02-01T14:50:16-08:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"3048","status":"publish","path":"/lowdown/3048/3048","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ch6>Click each county on the map below for stats on California's eligible and registered voters, as well as a breakdown of political party affiliation (but keep in mind there's a big difference between registered and \"likely\" voters). The darker the shade, the higher the percentage of registered voters.\u003c/h6>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?viz=MAP&q=select+col1%3E%3E0+from+1DFB5DDttqMkLJnhu7OAYp23GUsAljwR2Hs8G8DU&h=false&lat=37.50867752579624&lng=-117.36038790624995&z=5&t=1&l=col1%3E%3E0\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch6>\u003cem>(Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_u.htm\" target=\"_blank\">California Secretary of State\u003c/a>, May 2012 data)\u003c/em>\u003c/h6>\n\u003cp>President Lyndon B. Johnson, who signed the Voting Rights Act into law in 1965, called voting \"the basic right, without which all others are meaningless.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in California - where nearly 24 million adults are eligible to vote - the number of people who actually take advantage of this right is surprisingly small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider these California voting stats (approximated):\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>24 million\u003c/strong>: People who are eligible to vote\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>17 million\u003c/strong>: People registered to vote (about 72% of those who are eligible)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>6 million\u003c/strong>: \"Likely voters\" (those who regularly vote)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>5.3 million\u003c/strong>: The number of votes cast in the June 2012 primary election\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_show.asp?i=255\" target=\"_blank\">Public Policy Institute of California \u003c/a>survey also found that California's \"likely voters\" are not representative of the state's racial and economic diversity. About 65 percent of them are white (even though whites make up only 44 percent of the state's adult population) and only 17 percent Latino (who make up about one-third of the state's population). Likely voters are also generally older, more educated, more affluent, and far more likely to own a home than the average Californian. And more than 80 percent were born in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more on how to register to vote and who is eligible, go \u003ca href=\"http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/new-voter/registering-vote.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/lowdown/3048/3048","authors":["1263"],"categories":["lowdown_256","lowdown_242"],"tags":["lowdown_281","lowdown_254","lowdown_38","lowdown_29"],"featImg":"lowdown_3062","label":"lowdown"},"lowdown_2984":{"type":"posts","id":"lowdown_2984","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"lowdown","id":"2984","score":null,"sort":[1343265814000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"lowdown"},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1343265814,"format":"aside","disqusTitle":"Why Do So Many Californians Choose NOT to Vote?","title":"Why Do So Many Californians Choose NOT to Vote?","headTitle":"The Lowdown | KQED News","content":"\u003ch6>Guest post by Jennifer A. Waggoner\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 18px;font-weight: normal\">\u003cem>President, League of Women Voters of California Education Fund\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/h6>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/07/voting.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-2995 \" title=\"voting\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/07/voting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2012/07/voting.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2012/07/voting-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2012/07/voting-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nkristin_a/Flickr\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Voting is essential to the democratic process; it allows citizens to participate in shaping the role and scope of government. And it remains one of the most powerful and interactive forms of civic engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In most Democratic nations throughout the world, universal suffrage is a right that's been fought hard for. And in some democracies, voting among the adult population is actually mandatory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet in America, it's a right that's grown strikingly underutilized.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Where does California stand?\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>This is particularly evident in California: the voter turnout for the June 2012\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>primary election was among the lowest in the state’s history. Of the roughly 17 million adults in California who are registered to vote, only about 31 percent filled out their ballots. That means that a mere 5.3 million people - or just over half the size of Los Angeles County - decided on major statewide issues potentially impacting more than 37 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those figures don’t even include the roughly 6.5 million Californians who are eligible to vote but haven't actually registered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent elections, voting ranks in California have steadily declined. In fact, the 2010 U.S. Census reported that the state had the nation’s second lowest rate of voter registration in the nation, and one of the lowest voter turnout rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California also has the dubious distinction of having one of the largest percentages of adults who are not eligible to vote, in large part due to the roughly 17 percent of residents who are non-citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Why aren’t more people voting (and why should you care)?\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>California's meager voter turnout is due in part to the growing number of people who don't think they have a role in government. And this is a problem, because it’s the participation and civic engagement of everyone - majority and minority -that makes democracy work. When so many voices are not being heard, it raises the question of whether our government is actually fulfilling it’s obligation to represent everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Who are California’s likely voters?\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>There are nearly 24 million Californians who are eligible to vote and they can generally be evenly divided into three categories:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Habitual voters: those who always vote\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Periodic voters: those who are registered but only vote occasionally\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Unregistered: those who are eligible but not registered\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Likely voters do not represent the diversity of the state's population. They are disproportionately white and tend to have incomes and levels of education that are notably higher than the state’s average. A recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_show.asp?i=255\" target=\"_blank\">Public Policy Institute of California study\u003c/a> found that:\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/07/Table_LikelyVoters_PPIC.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Table_LikelyVoters_PPIC\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/07/Table_LikelyVoters_PPIC-300x421.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Non-Hispanic whites constitute only 44 percent of California's adult population but make up 65 percent of the state's likely voters.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hispanics make up a third of the state's population but represent only 17 percent of likely voters.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The study also found large regional disparities, with significantly higher rates of unregistered adults located in particular communities throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most public discourse around California politics is directed at habitual voters; it assumes a high level of interest, awareness, and experience. But getting the remaining two-thirds to more fully participate requires a very different approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>What are the most common factors the prevent people from voting?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>It's commonly assumed that apathy is the main factor behind low voter turnout; the notion that nonvoters are lazy or don’t really care. In surveys, the majority of nonvoters commonly say they don’t participate because they don't have the time, don’t like the choices, or don’t think their vote will matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In our ongoing analysis of this issue, \u003ca href=\"http://lwvc.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=easyvoter_about_research\" target=\"_blank\">the League of Women Voters of California\u003c/a> has consistently found that a majority of nonvoters don't have sufficient understanding about the voting process, how it works, and why their vote really does matter. New voters also often lack access to clear, non-partisan information and guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In particular, we identified three main constraints among nonvoters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Many do not see the connection between politics and their own lives\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Many perceive the voting process as difficult and intimidating, like taking an exam\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Many do not receive direct encouragement to vote from friends and family (we found, for instance, that the most important predictor of whether young people vote is if they grew up in a household with voters)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>What are some ways to increase voter turnout?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Both new and experienced voters we talked to requested more user-friendly nonpartisan information. Specifically, new voters asked for:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Reasons \u003cem>why\u003c/em> to vote, from a peer perspective\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hands-on training on \u003cem>how\u003c/em> to vote\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Basic information about \u003cem>what \u003c/em>they are being asked to vote for (how to choose a political party, which types of elected officials are running, and what those positions actually do).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In general, if we are to effectively open the voting process to a greater number of the number of Californians, we have to better address and clearly articulate the fundamentals of how to do it and why it matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cavotes.org/\" target=\"_blank\">League of Women Voters of California Education Fund\u003c/a> operates various voter education initiatives in partnership with community organizations and educational institutions throughout California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"2984 http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/?p=2984","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2012/07/25/it%e2%80%99s-not-democracy-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-participate-in-it-why-so-many-californians-dont-vote/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":892,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":20},"modified":1359759135,"excerpt":null,"headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Guest post by Jennifer A. Waggoner President, League of Women Voters of California Education Fund kristin_a/Flickr Voting is essential to the democratic process; it allows citizens to participate in shaping the role and scope of government. And it remains one of the most powerful and interactive forms of civic engagement. In most Democratic nations throughout","title":"Why Do So Many Californians Choose NOT to Vote? | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Why Do So Many Californians Choose NOT to Vote?","datePublished":"2012-07-25T18:23:34-07:00","dateModified":"2013-02-01T14:52:15-08:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"it%e2%80%99s-not-democracy-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-participate-in-it-why-so-many-californians-dont-vote","status":"publish","path":"/lowdown/2984/it%e2%80%99s-not-democracy-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-participate-in-it-why-so-many-californians-dont-vote","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ch6>Guest post by Jennifer A. Waggoner\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 18px;font-weight: normal\">\u003cem>President, League of Women Voters of California Education Fund\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/h6>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/07/voting.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-2995 \" title=\"voting\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/07/voting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2012/07/voting.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2012/07/voting-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2012/07/voting-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nkristin_a/Flickr\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Voting is essential to the democratic process; it allows citizens to participate in shaping the role and scope of government. And it remains one of the most powerful and interactive forms of civic engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In most Democratic nations throughout the world, universal suffrage is a right that's been fought hard for. And in some democracies, voting among the adult population is actually mandatory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet in America, it's a right that's grown strikingly underutilized.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Where does California stand?\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>This is particularly evident in California: the voter turnout for the June 2012\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>primary election was among the lowest in the state’s history. Of the roughly 17 million adults in California who are registered to vote, only about 31 percent filled out their ballots. That means that a mere 5.3 million people - or just over half the size of Los Angeles County - decided on major statewide issues potentially impacting more than 37 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those figures don’t even include the roughly 6.5 million Californians who are eligible to vote but haven't actually registered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent elections, voting ranks in California have steadily declined. In fact, the 2010 U.S. Census reported that the state had the nation’s second lowest rate of voter registration in the nation, and one of the lowest voter turnout rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California also has the dubious distinction of having one of the largest percentages of adults who are not eligible to vote, in large part due to the roughly 17 percent of residents who are non-citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Why aren’t more people voting (and why should you care)?\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>California's meager voter turnout is due in part to the growing number of people who don't think they have a role in government. And this is a problem, because it’s the participation and civic engagement of everyone - majority and minority -that makes democracy work. When so many voices are not being heard, it raises the question of whether our government is actually fulfilling it’s obligation to represent everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Who are California’s likely voters?\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>There are nearly 24 million Californians who are eligible to vote and they can generally be evenly divided into three categories:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Habitual voters: those who always vote\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Periodic voters: those who are registered but only vote occasionally\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Unregistered: those who are eligible but not registered\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Likely voters do not represent the diversity of the state's population. They are disproportionately white and tend to have incomes and levels of education that are notably higher than the state’s average. A recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_show.asp?i=255\" target=\"_blank\">Public Policy Institute of California study\u003c/a> found that:\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/07/Table_LikelyVoters_PPIC.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2993\" title=\"Table_LikelyVoters_PPIC\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/07/Table_LikelyVoters_PPIC-300x421.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Non-Hispanic whites constitute only 44 percent of California's adult population but make up 65 percent of the state's likely voters.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hispanics make up a third of the state's population but represent only 17 percent of likely voters.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The study also found large regional disparities, with significantly higher rates of unregistered adults located in particular communities throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most public discourse around California politics is directed at habitual voters; it assumes a high level of interest, awareness, and experience. But getting the remaining two-thirds to more fully participate requires a very different approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>What are the most common factors the prevent people from voting?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>It's commonly assumed that apathy is the main factor behind low voter turnout; the notion that nonvoters are lazy or don’t really care. In surveys, the majority of nonvoters commonly say they don’t participate because they don't have the time, don’t like the choices, or don’t think their vote will matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In our ongoing analysis of this issue, \u003ca href=\"http://lwvc.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=easyvoter_about_research\" target=\"_blank\">the League of Women Voters of California\u003c/a> has consistently found that a majority of nonvoters don't have sufficient understanding about the voting process, how it works, and why their vote really does matter. New voters also often lack access to clear, non-partisan information and guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In particular, we identified three main constraints among nonvoters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Many do not see the connection between politics and their own lives\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Many perceive the voting process as difficult and intimidating, like taking an exam\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Many do not receive direct encouragement to vote from friends and family (we found, for instance, that the most important predictor of whether young people vote is if they grew up in a household with voters)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>What are some ways to increase voter turnout?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Both new and experienced voters we talked to requested more user-friendly nonpartisan information. Specifically, new voters asked for:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Reasons \u003cem>why\u003c/em> to vote, from a peer perspective\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hands-on training on \u003cem>how\u003c/em> to vote\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Basic information about \u003cem>what \u003c/em>they are being asked to vote for (how to choose a political party, which types of elected officials are running, and what those positions actually do).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In general, if we are to effectively open the voting process to a greater number of the number of Californians, we have to better address and clearly articulate the fundamentals of how to do it and why it matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cavotes.org/\" target=\"_blank\">League of Women Voters of California Education Fund\u003c/a> operates various voter education initiatives in partnership with community organizations and educational institutions throughout California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/lowdown/2984/it%e2%80%99s-not-democracy-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-participate-in-it-why-so-many-californians-dont-vote","authors":["1"],"categories":["lowdown_256"],"tags":["lowdown_281","lowdown_155","lowdown_156","lowdown_157"],"label":"lowdown"},"lowdown_2169":{"type":"posts","id":"lowdown_2169","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"lowdown","id":"2169","score":null,"sort":[1337993502000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"lowdown"},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1337993502,"format":"aside","disqusTitle":"Who Smokes? Tobacco-Use by the Numbers","title":"Who Smokes? Tobacco-Use by the Numbers","headTitle":"The Lowdown | KQED News","content":"\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>About one in five adults in America smokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's a significant drop from even a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>In California, which has one of the lowest rates in the country, it's down to roughly one in eight.\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>But disparities in smoking rates across economic, racial, educational, and gender lines remain wide. The graphic below - from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/AdultSmoking/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \u003c/a>- is based on 2010 U.S. smoking data among adults:\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 576px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/smoker-infographic1.png\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-2179 size-full\" title=\"smoker infographic\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/smoker-infographic1.png\" width=\"576\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/smoker-infographic1.png 576w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/smoker-infographic1-400x800.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/smoker-infographic1-320x640.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>Who smokes in California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>In the last two decades, California's overall adult smoking rate has dropped roughly 40 percent. Among current smokers, income and education level (much more than race) still remain the two biggest predictors of who smokes. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/tobacco/Documents/CDPH_CTS2008%20summary%20report_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">California Tobacco Control Program survey\u003c/a>, using data from 2008, found that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2182\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/CountryStats.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-2182\" title=\"CountryStats\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/CountryStats-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California's adult smoking prevalence (2008). The darker the red, the higher the rate. (source: http://www.cstats.info)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Poorer counties have significantly higher smoking rates:\u003c/em> Tehama County, among California's poorest (with a poverty rate around 20 percent), had the highest adult smoking rate - almost 23 percent. Marin County, one of the richest regions in the state, had the lowest rate - just over 7 percent.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Poorer households have higher smoking rates:\u003c/em> Households with annual incomes exceeding $150,000 had a smoking rate under 8 percent, compared with a nearly 20% rate among those with annual incomes less than $20,000.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Education level plays a big role:\u003c/em> The smoking rate among college graduates in California is 6 percent. Those without degrees: 12 to 15%!\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Smoking rates are higher in rural areas:\u003c/em> Rural regions had a higher smoking rate (nearly 16 percent) than suburban and urban areas (nearly 11 percent). Interestingly, the two exceptions were San Francisco and Sacramento Counties, both of which had rates above the state average.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>So why should you care? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Disparities in the state's smoking rates bring up an interesting issue. Like most kinds of taxes - including gas, sales and property - a tobacco tax is considered \u003ca href=\"http://www.irs.gov/app/understandingTaxes/whys/thm03/les05/media/ws_ans_thm03_les05.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">regressive\u003c/a>: one that takes a larger percentage of income from lower income groups than higher income groups. Because all smokers pay the same amount of tax for a pack of cigs, the price burden is heavier on poorer smokers than richer smokers, and it becomes more so as the tax goes up. For instance, if the tax on a pack of cigarettes were $2, and your weekly budget was only $10, that tax would be one-fifth of your entire budget. However, if your budget was twice that - $20 - the same tax would only be one-tenth of your budget. So ... the more money you have, the less you feel the cost of the tax. And, of course, if you don't smoke, you don't have to pay the tax at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because in California there are more lower income than higher income people who smoke, an increase in the tobacco tax would have a lot more impact on lower income populations. The opposite of a regressive tax is called a progressive tax - one that that takes a larger percentage of income from higher income groups. Income tax - in which you pay a percentage of your income - is really the only true example of a progressive tax in our current tax system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On November 8, California voters decide on Proposition 56, which would more than double the state's tobacco tax. Some opponents argue that a tax like this unfairly burdens and penalizes the state's poorer populations, who proportionally smoke more. Richer populations, whose smoking rates are much lower, will be less affected. The counterargument, of course, is that those same lower-income populations are already very burdened by high rates of smoking-related illness and subsequent medical costs. Increasing the tax on cigarettes will effectively discourage more people - especially youth - from smoking, especially folks who, financially, are less able to afford it. Advocates of the tax also point to the hefty burden that smoking-related illnesses place on the state's public health care system, a huge cost shared by all California taxpayers - smokers and non-smokers alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"2169 http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/?p=2169","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2012/05/25/whosmokes/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":691,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":9},"modified":1478135398,"excerpt":null,"headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"About one in five adults in America smokes. And that's a significant drop from even a decade ago. In California, which has one of the lowest rates in the country, it's down to roughly one in eight. But disparities in smoking rates across economic, racial, educational, and gender lines remain wide. The graphic below -","title":"Who Smokes? Tobacco-Use by the Numbers | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Who Smokes? Tobacco-Use by the Numbers","datePublished":"2012-05-25T17:51:42-07:00","dateModified":"2016-11-02T18:09:58-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"whosmokes","status":"publish","path":"/lowdown/2169/whosmokes","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>About one in five adults in America smokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's a significant drop from even a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>In California, which has one of the lowest rates in the country, it's down to roughly one in eight.\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>But disparities in smoking rates across economic, racial, educational, and gender lines remain wide. The graphic below - from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/AdultSmoking/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \u003c/a>- is based on 2010 U.S. smoking data among adults:\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 576px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/smoker-infographic1.png\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-2179 size-full\" title=\"smoker infographic\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/smoker-infographic1.png\" width=\"576\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/smoker-infographic1.png 576w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/smoker-infographic1-400x800.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/smoker-infographic1-320x640.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>Who smokes in California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>In the last two decades, California's overall adult smoking rate has dropped roughly 40 percent. Among current smokers, income and education level (much more than race) still remain the two biggest predictors of who smokes. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/tobacco/Documents/CDPH_CTS2008%20summary%20report_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">California Tobacco Control Program survey\u003c/a>, using data from 2008, found that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2182\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/CountryStats.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-2182\" title=\"CountryStats\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/CountryStats-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California's adult smoking prevalence (2008). The darker the red, the higher the rate. (source: http://www.cstats.info)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Poorer counties have significantly higher smoking rates:\u003c/em> Tehama County, among California's poorest (with a poverty rate around 20 percent), had the highest adult smoking rate - almost 23 percent. Marin County, one of the richest regions in the state, had the lowest rate - just over 7 percent.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Poorer households have higher smoking rates:\u003c/em> Households with annual incomes exceeding $150,000 had a smoking rate under 8 percent, compared with a nearly 20% rate among those with annual incomes less than $20,000.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Education level plays a big role:\u003c/em> The smoking rate among college graduates in California is 6 percent. Those without degrees: 12 to 15%!\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Smoking rates are higher in rural areas:\u003c/em> Rural regions had a higher smoking rate (nearly 16 percent) than suburban and urban areas (nearly 11 percent). Interestingly, the two exceptions were San Francisco and Sacramento Counties, both of which had rates above the state average.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>So why should you care? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Disparities in the state's smoking rates bring up an interesting issue. Like most kinds of taxes - including gas, sales and property - a tobacco tax is considered \u003ca href=\"http://www.irs.gov/app/understandingTaxes/whys/thm03/les05/media/ws_ans_thm03_les05.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">regressive\u003c/a>: one that takes a larger percentage of income from lower income groups than higher income groups. Because all smokers pay the same amount of tax for a pack of cigs, the price burden is heavier on poorer smokers than richer smokers, and it becomes more so as the tax goes up. For instance, if the tax on a pack of cigarettes were $2, and your weekly budget was only $10, that tax would be one-fifth of your entire budget. However, if your budget was twice that - $20 - the same tax would only be one-tenth of your budget. So ... the more money you have, the less you feel the cost of the tax. And, of course, if you don't smoke, you don't have to pay the tax at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because in California there are more lower income than higher income people who smoke, an increase in the tobacco tax would have a lot more impact on lower income populations. The opposite of a regressive tax is called a progressive tax - one that that takes a larger percentage of income from higher income groups. Income tax - in which you pay a percentage of your income - is really the only true example of a progressive tax in our current tax system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On November 8, California voters decide on Proposition 56, which would more than double the state's tobacco tax. Some opponents argue that a tax like this unfairly burdens and penalizes the state's poorer populations, who proportionally smoke more. Richer populations, whose smoking rates are much lower, will be less affected. The counterargument, of course, is that those same lower-income populations are already very burdened by high rates of smoking-related illness and subsequent medical costs. Increasing the tax on cigarettes will effectively discourage more people - especially youth - from smoking, especially folks who, financially, are less able to afford it. Advocates of the tax also point to the hefty burden that smoking-related illnesses place on the state's public health care system, a huge cost shared by all California taxpayers - smokers and non-smokers alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/lowdown/2169/whosmokes","authors":["1263"],"categories":["lowdown_256"],"tags":["lowdown_281","lowdown_124","lowdown_286","lowdown_121","lowdown_123"],"label":"lowdown"},"lowdown_2044":{"type":"posts","id":"lowdown_2044","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"lowdown","id":"2044","score":null,"sort":[1337393442000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"lowdown"},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1337393442,"format":"aside","disqusTitle":"Prop 29: Should Smoking in California Be More Expensive?","title":"Prop 29: Should Smoking in California Be More Expensive?","headTitle":"The Lowdown | KQED News","content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2075\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/smoker.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-2075 \" title=\"smoker\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/smoker-300x280.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Jaus/Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That's the underlying question that Proposition 29 poses to California voters, who go to the polls in June to decide if smokers should pay an extra buck in taxes for a pack of cigarettes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What would Prop 29 do?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If passed, the measure - called the \u003ca href=\"http://californiansforacure.org/facts/Proposition29.pdf?_c=10l2owgdccpdcw1&sr_t=p\" target=\"_blank\">California Cancer Research Act\u003c/a> - would add an additional dollar to a pack of cigs and other tobacco products sold in California (amounting to five more cents/cigarette). It would more than double the current tobacco tax rate - the most dramatic increase in the state's history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/ballot/2012/29_05_2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">estimated $735 million\u003c/a> (annually) in new revenue (adjusted for tax revenue lost from the projected decrease in sales) would go toward a special fund administered by an appointed committee to support research on cancer and other tobacco-related diseases, as well as prevention and enforcement initiatives. None of it would be used for medical treatment.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the measure passes, tobacco sales in California are predicted to decrease by as much as $1 billion a year. If the measure does NOT pass, the current cigarette tax of 87 cents would remain as is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cobject width=\"335\" height=\"85\" classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\">\u003cparam name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R201205210850a.xml\">\u003cembed width=\"335\" height=\"85\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\" flashvars=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R201205210850a.xml\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who likes it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://californiansforacure.org/\" target=\"_blank\"> Californians for a Cure\u003c/a> is the group behind Prop 29. Co-chaired by former State Senate Pro Tem Don Perata and cycling legend Lance Armstrong, both cancer survivors, the group consists of a host of large health foundations, namely the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association and the American Heart Association. The campaign argues that the new tax will save lives in California by significantly reducing smoking rates, especially among youth, and by funding cancer research. As of mid-May, it had \u003ca href=\"http://maplight.org/california/proposition/2012/june/prop-29/funding\" target=\"_blank\">raised about $8.5 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who doesn't?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.noon29.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Californians Against Out-of-Control Taxes and Spending \u003c/a>is the campaign trying to defeat Prop 29. Supported by a number of anti-tax groups, it is funded primarily by major tobacco companies to the tune of nearly \u003ca href=\"http://maplight.org/california/proposition/2012/june/prop-29/funding\" target=\"_blank\">$40 million\u003c/a> (as of mid-May). The campaign, it's worth noting, is not trying to argue that cigarettes aren't bad for you or that there shouldn't be government prevention programs and cancer research efforts. Rather, it argues that the measure is fundamentally flawed - especially in the midst of the state's budget crisis - because it doesn't guarantee the additional revenue would stay in California, and creates a wasteful, unnecessary and unaccountable government bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign to defeat the measure, and the strategy of spending millions on a statewide advertising blitz against it, seems to be effective. Since March, the measure's approval rating among likely voters has dropped 14 points, according to a new statewide survey conducted by the nonpartisan \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/home.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a>. As of late-May, 53 percent say they will vote yes, 42 percent say they will vote no, and 5 percent are undecided, the survey found. But back in March, before active campaigning around the measure began—67 percent supported it, 30 percent opposed it, and 3 percent were undecided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interestingly, though, when likely voters were asked the more general question about increasing taxes on cigarette purchases, 63 percent still said they were in favor and 33 percent were opposed. Responses to this question were similar in March (63% favor, 34% oppose).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The large drop in support for Proposition 29 speaks loudly about how a well-funded opposition is able to raise voters’ doubts and distrust in state government, even when a tax increase is viewed favorably,” says Mark Baldassare, PPIC president and CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bring on the ad wars\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a sample of the many ads recently aired by the opposing campaigns:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"float: left; width: 50%;\">[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNHKfj04op4]\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"float: right; width: 50%;\">[https://youtu.be/WdBku7djC4s]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How does California's tobacco tax compare to rates in other states?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's current cigarette excise tax (an\u003cem> excise\u003c/em>, by the way, means a tax levied on specific commodities) is pretty low compared to most other states (18th lowest, to be precise): right now the tax here is 87 cents/pack, almost 60 cents lower than the national average and a whopping $3.50 less than in New York, whose tobacco tax is $4.35, the nation's highest. (New York City has an additional $1.50 tax, so an average pack of smokes there costs more than $11!). Taxes on tobacco products in California haven't increased in 14 years. We join Missouri and North Dakota as the only three states in the country that haven't increased them since 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smokers throughout the U.S. also pay a federal excise tax of about $1/pack on top of state taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How does California's smoking rate measure up to other states?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite its low taxes, California actually has the second lowest smoking rate in the country: just over 12 percent of adults. Compare that to the national rate of nearly 20 percent or one in five (the smoking rate among California's youth is slightly higher than it is among adults, but still far below the national average). The state's adult smoking rate has declined consistently over the last two decades, sparing more than 1 million lives and $86 billion, according to state health officials. In 2010, California's smoking rate reached a record low of 11.9 percent (it's risen slightly since), down from almost 26 percent in 1984. The most significant decrease occurred among adults ages 25 to 44. But while California's current smoking rate is significantly lower than many other parts of the country, there still are roughly 4.5 million adult smokers statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\">\u003cstrong>U.S. smoking rates by state\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nClick on any state to see the percentage of adult smokers (2010 data) and the tobacco tax rate. The darker the shade of red, the higher the smoking rate.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?viz=MAP&q=select+col3%3E%3E1+from+1UxQngyj51OJhNsLW_n4jR6rGY-FojopscGL7mD8&h=false&lat=40.08061205715073&lng=-87.06144062500006&z=3&t=1&l=col3%3E%3E1\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Data sources: Centers for Disease Control; Tax Foundation\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is California's smoking rate so low?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\">There's obviously no single answer, but a number of policy measures have received a lot of credit. California has long been a trendsetter in local and state government smoking reduction efforts. In 1995 it placed a statewide ban on smoking in restaurants and workplaces, the first state to do so. Three years later, the ban was extended to bars. California has also spearheaded significant smoking prevention and education efforts, particularly geared towards youth. A 25-cent cigarette tax in 1998 created the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/tobacco/pages/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">California Tobacco Control Program\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>the first of its kind in the nation, charged with leading aggressive anti-smoking campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\">\u003cstrong>What's the history of tobacco taxes in California?\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/SmokingRateChartAdults20101.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-2079 aligncenter\" title=\"SmokingRateChartAdults2010\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/SmokingRateChartAdults20101-620x337.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"253\">\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>1959: the state's first tobacco tax was passed by the legislature. It added 10 cents to the cost of a pack of cigarettes. The revenue went straight into the General Fund.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1988: voters approved Prop 99, which added an additional 25-cent tax to fund tobacco prevention, education, and research programs.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1993: a 2-cent tax enacted by the legislature created a fund for breast cancer research.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1998: voters approved Prop 10, adding a 50-cent tax to fund early child development programs.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Last year, total state revenues from taxes on tobacco products were just over $900 million. California's last tobacco tax measure - Proposition 86 - appeared on the ballot in 2006, but was narrowly defeated. The opposing campaign spent nearly $67 million. The measure would have imposed an additional $2.60 per pack, giving California one of the highest tobacco tax rates in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does raising taxes on tobacco products actually reduce smoking? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2227\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/youthsmoking.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-2227\" title=\"youthsmoking\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/youthsmoking-300x195.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: California Department of Public Health\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yes, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/media/mmwrnews/2012/0329.html#1\" target=\"_blank\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a>. \"Increasing the price of cigarettes is one of the most reliable and effective ways to reduce smoking and prevent youth initiation,\" the agency reported in it Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on March 29, 2012. The report added: \"The evidence indicates that further increases in cigarette excise taxes would continue to reduce the demand for cigarettes, thereby preventing youth initiation, reducing cigarette consumption, and decreasing the prevalence of smoking, particularly among youth and young adults. States can reduce cigarette use even further by investing excise tax revenue in tobacco prevention and control.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some economists, however, argue that high cigarette taxes can do more harm than good, drawing smokers to buy cigarettes in nearby states with significantly lower taxes and resulting in lost tax revenue for California. High costs, it's been noted, could also encourage a black market in cigarette sales, as has become common practice in \u003ca href=\"http://observer.com/2011/11/22/the-war-on-cigarette-taxation-and-why-the-city-is-losing/\" target=\"_blank\">New York City\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are the economic and social costs of smoking in California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with California's relatively low smoking rate, the economic and social costs here are still pretty steep. In 2004 (when the adult smoking rate was14.6 percent), roughly 35 thousand deaths in California among adults aged 35 and older were attributed to smoking, according to the California Department of Public Health. That's eight times the number of deaths from all infectious diseases combined. The department estimates that the total adult health-related cost of smoking that same year was more than $18 billion. That includes $9.6 billion in direct health care costs associated with smoking and $8.5 billion in productivity losses dues to smoking-attributed early death or illness. The department estimates that if smokers were to pay for these related costs, a pack of cigarettes would need to be increased by $9.70.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Additional non-partisan resources on Prop 29 and tobacco use\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/ballot/2012/29_05_2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">CA Legislative Analyst's Office \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://maplight.org/california/proposition/2012/june/prop-29\" target=\"_blank\">MapLight Voter Guide\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/propositions/29/\" target=\"_blank\">CA Secretary of State Voter Guide\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"www.cdph.ca.gov\" target=\"_blank\">California Department of Public Health\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Centers for Disease Control\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"2044 http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/?p=2044","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2012/05/18/prop-29-should-smoking-in-california-be-more-expensive/","stats":{"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":true,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":1607,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":["https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz"],"paragraphCount":32},"modified":1485204970,"excerpt":null,"headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"That's the underlying question that Proposition 29 poses to California voters, who go to the polls in June to decide if smokers should pay an extra buck in taxes for a pack of cigarettes. What would Prop 29 do? If passed, the measure - called the California Cancer Research Act - would add an additional","title":"Prop 29: Should Smoking in California Be More Expensive? | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Prop 29: Should Smoking in California Be More Expensive?","datePublished":"2012-05-18T19:10:42-07:00","dateModified":"2017-01-23T12:56:10-08:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"prop-29-should-smoking-in-california-be-more-expensive","status":"publish","path":"/lowdown/2044/prop-29-should-smoking-in-california-be-more-expensive","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2075\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/smoker.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-2075 \" title=\"smoker\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/smoker-300x280.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Jaus/Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That's the underlying question that Proposition 29 poses to California voters, who go to the polls in June to decide if smokers should pay an extra buck in taxes for a pack of cigarettes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What would Prop 29 do?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If passed, the measure - called the \u003ca href=\"http://californiansforacure.org/facts/Proposition29.pdf?_c=10l2owgdccpdcw1&sr_t=p\" target=\"_blank\">California Cancer Research Act\u003c/a> - would add an additional dollar to a pack of cigs and other tobacco products sold in California (amounting to five more cents/cigarette). It would more than double the current tobacco tax rate - the most dramatic increase in the state's history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/ballot/2012/29_05_2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">estimated $735 million\u003c/a> (annually) in new revenue (adjusted for tax revenue lost from the projected decrease in sales) would go toward a special fund administered by an appointed committee to support research on cancer and other tobacco-related diseases, as well as prevention and enforcement initiatives. None of it would be used for medical treatment.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the measure passes, tobacco sales in California are predicted to decrease by as much as $1 billion a year. If the measure does NOT pass, the current cigarette tax of 87 cents would remain as is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cobject width=\"335\" height=\"85\" classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\">\u003cparam name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R201205210850a.xml\">\u003cembed width=\"335\" height=\"85\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\" flashvars=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R201205210850a.xml\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who likes it?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://californiansforacure.org/\" target=\"_blank\"> Californians for a Cure\u003c/a> is the group behind Prop 29. Co-chaired by former State Senate Pro Tem Don Perata and cycling legend Lance Armstrong, both cancer survivors, the group consists of a host of large health foundations, namely the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association and the American Heart Association. The campaign argues that the new tax will save lives in California by significantly reducing smoking rates, especially among youth, and by funding cancer research. As of mid-May, it had \u003ca href=\"http://maplight.org/california/proposition/2012/june/prop-29/funding\" target=\"_blank\">raised about $8.5 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who doesn't?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.noon29.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Californians Against Out-of-Control Taxes and Spending \u003c/a>is the campaign trying to defeat Prop 29. Supported by a number of anti-tax groups, it is funded primarily by major tobacco companies to the tune of nearly \u003ca href=\"http://maplight.org/california/proposition/2012/june/prop-29/funding\" target=\"_blank\">$40 million\u003c/a> (as of mid-May). The campaign, it's worth noting, is not trying to argue that cigarettes aren't bad for you or that there shouldn't be government prevention programs and cancer research efforts. Rather, it argues that the measure is fundamentally flawed - especially in the midst of the state's budget crisis - because it doesn't guarantee the additional revenue would stay in California, and creates a wasteful, unnecessary and unaccountable government bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign to defeat the measure, and the strategy of spending millions on a statewide advertising blitz against it, seems to be effective. Since March, the measure's approval rating among likely voters has dropped 14 points, according to a new statewide survey conducted by the nonpartisan \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/home.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a>. As of late-May, 53 percent say they will vote yes, 42 percent say they will vote no, and 5 percent are undecided, the survey found. But back in March, before active campaigning around the measure began—67 percent supported it, 30 percent opposed it, and 3 percent were undecided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interestingly, though, when likely voters were asked the more general question about increasing taxes on cigarette purchases, 63 percent still said they were in favor and 33 percent were opposed. Responses to this question were similar in March (63% favor, 34% oppose).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The large drop in support for Proposition 29 speaks loudly about how a well-funded opposition is able to raise voters’ doubts and distrust in state government, even when a tax increase is viewed favorably,” says Mark Baldassare, PPIC president and CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bring on the ad wars\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a sample of the many ads recently aired by the opposing campaigns:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"float: left; width: 50%;\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/fNHKfj04op4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/fNHKfj04op4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"float: right; width: 50%;\">[https://youtu.be/WdBku7djC4s]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How does California's tobacco tax compare to rates in other states?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's current cigarette excise tax (an\u003cem> excise\u003c/em>, by the way, means a tax levied on specific commodities) is pretty low compared to most other states (18th lowest, to be precise): right now the tax here is 87 cents/pack, almost 60 cents lower than the national average and a whopping $3.50 less than in New York, whose tobacco tax is $4.35, the nation's highest. (New York City has an additional $1.50 tax, so an average pack of smokes there costs more than $11!). Taxes on tobacco products in California haven't increased in 14 years. We join Missouri and North Dakota as the only three states in the country that haven't increased them since 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smokers throughout the U.S. also pay a federal excise tax of about $1/pack on top of state taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How does California's smoking rate measure up to other states?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite its low taxes, California actually has the second lowest smoking rate in the country: just over 12 percent of adults. Compare that to the national rate of nearly 20 percent or one in five (the smoking rate among California's youth is slightly higher than it is among adults, but still far below the national average). The state's adult smoking rate has declined consistently over the last two decades, sparing more than 1 million lives and $86 billion, according to state health officials. In 2010, California's smoking rate reached a record low of 11.9 percent (it's risen slightly since), down from almost 26 percent in 1984. The most significant decrease occurred among adults ages 25 to 44. But while California's current smoking rate is significantly lower than many other parts of the country, there still are roughly 4.5 million adult smokers statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\">\u003cstrong>U.S. smoking rates by state\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nClick on any state to see the percentage of adult smokers (2010 data) and the tobacco tax rate. The darker the shade of red, the higher the smoking rate.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?viz=MAP&q=select+col3%3E%3E1+from+1UxQngyj51OJhNsLW_n4jR6rGY-FojopscGL7mD8&h=false&lat=40.08061205715073&lng=-87.06144062500006&z=3&t=1&l=col3%3E%3E1\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Data sources: Centers for Disease Control; Tax Foundation\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is California's smoking rate so low?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\">There's obviously no single answer, but a number of policy measures have received a lot of credit. California has long been a trendsetter in local and state government smoking reduction efforts. In 1995 it placed a statewide ban on smoking in restaurants and workplaces, the first state to do so. Three years later, the ban was extended to bars. California has also spearheaded significant smoking prevention and education efforts, particularly geared towards youth. A 25-cent cigarette tax in 1998 created the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/tobacco/pages/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">California Tobacco Control Program\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>the first of its kind in the nation, charged with leading aggressive anti-smoking campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\">\u003cstrong>What's the history of tobacco taxes in California?\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/SmokingRateChartAdults20101.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-2079 aligncenter\" title=\"SmokingRateChartAdults2010\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/SmokingRateChartAdults20101-620x337.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"253\">\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>1959: the state's first tobacco tax was passed by the legislature. It added 10 cents to the cost of a pack of cigarettes. The revenue went straight into the General Fund.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1988: voters approved Prop 99, which added an additional 25-cent tax to fund tobacco prevention, education, and research programs.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1993: a 2-cent tax enacted by the legislature created a fund for breast cancer research.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1998: voters approved Prop 10, adding a 50-cent tax to fund early child development programs.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Last year, total state revenues from taxes on tobacco products were just over $900 million. California's last tobacco tax measure - Proposition 86 - appeared on the ballot in 2006, but was narrowly defeated. The opposing campaign spent nearly $67 million. The measure would have imposed an additional $2.60 per pack, giving California one of the highest tobacco tax rates in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does raising taxes on tobacco products actually reduce smoking? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2227\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/youthsmoking.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-2227\" title=\"youthsmoking\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/youthsmoking-300x195.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: California Department of Public Health\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yes, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/media/mmwrnews/2012/0329.html#1\" target=\"_blank\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a>. \"Increasing the price of cigarettes is one of the most reliable and effective ways to reduce smoking and prevent youth initiation,\" the agency reported in it Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on March 29, 2012. The report added: \"The evidence indicates that further increases in cigarette excise taxes would continue to reduce the demand for cigarettes, thereby preventing youth initiation, reducing cigarette consumption, and decreasing the prevalence of smoking, particularly among youth and young adults. States can reduce cigarette use even further by investing excise tax revenue in tobacco prevention and control.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some economists, however, argue that high cigarette taxes can do more harm than good, drawing smokers to buy cigarettes in nearby states with significantly lower taxes and resulting in lost tax revenue for California. High costs, it's been noted, could also encourage a black market in cigarette sales, as has become common practice in \u003ca href=\"http://observer.com/2011/11/22/the-war-on-cigarette-taxation-and-why-the-city-is-losing/\" target=\"_blank\">New York City\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are the economic and social costs of smoking in California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with California's relatively low smoking rate, the economic and social costs here are still pretty steep. In 2004 (when the adult smoking rate was14.6 percent), roughly 35 thousand deaths in California among adults aged 35 and older were attributed to smoking, according to the California Department of Public Health. That's eight times the number of deaths from all infectious diseases combined. The department estimates that the total adult health-related cost of smoking that same year was more than $18 billion. That includes $9.6 billion in direct health care costs associated with smoking and $8.5 billion in productivity losses dues to smoking-attributed early death or illness. The department estimates that if smokers were to pay for these related costs, a pack of cigarettes would need to be increased by $9.70.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Additional non-partisan resources on Prop 29 and tobacco use\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/ballot/2012/29_05_2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">CA Legislative Analyst's Office \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://maplight.org/california/proposition/2012/june/prop-29\" target=\"_blank\">MapLight Voter Guide\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/propositions/29/\" target=\"_blank\">CA Secretary of State Voter Guide\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"www.cdph.ca.gov\" target=\"_blank\">California Department of Public Health\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Centers for Disease Control\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/lowdown/2044/prop-29-should-smoking-in-california-be-more-expensive","authors":["7343"],"categories":["lowdown_245","lowdown_256","lowdown_242"],"tags":["lowdown_268","lowdown_281","lowdown_119","lowdown_254","lowdown_273","lowdown_118","lowdown_121","lowdown_120","lowdown_265"],"featImg":"lowdown_2075","label":"lowdown"},"lowdown_1944":{"type":"posts","id":"lowdown_1944","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"lowdown","id":"1944","score":null,"sort":[1336699012000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"lowdown"},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1336699012,"format":"aside","disqusTitle":"Obama's Very Loaded Thumbs Up On Same-Sex Marriage","title":"Obama's Very Loaded Thumbs Up On Same-Sex Marriage","headTitle":"The Lowdown | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/obamasamesexmarriage20120509.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1960\" title=\"obamasamesexmarriage20120509\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/obamasamesexmarriage20120509-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>It took just 10 words for President Obama to end his career-long wrestling match with the same-sex marriage issue. During a deceptively casual television interview on Wednesday, Obama simply said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->And with that, Obama made history as the first sitting American president to endorse same-sex marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Obama's stance on the issue doesn't change any existing laws, and his endorsement was almost certainly pressured forward after recent unexpected remarks on the issue by both his vice president and education secretary, (who independently voiced support for same-sex marriage), the president's statement marks a watershed moment in one of this nation's biggest and most contentious social issues. Because even as the country remains bitterly divided about it, a presidential endorsement packs a pretty powerful punch in influencing the debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1143\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/02/gaymarriage.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-1143\" title=\"gaymarriage\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/02/gaymarriage-300x278.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The legal status of same-sex marriage around the U.S. (NPR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Obama, whose position on same-sex marriage has for decades, swayed like a pendulum, this latest statement marks the momentous end ( at least for now) of his drawn out, self-described \"evolving\" stance on the issue. Because, when it comes down to it, Obama is, above all else, a professional politician. Sure, he has strong personal beliefs and values. But his impressive political success has always depended on the ability to delicately balance priorities and values, and to find the comfortable middle ground to retain a solid support base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bottom line for a cautious politician: row the boat, but try not to rock it too much!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given all that, it's little surprise that the guy's balked at supporting same-sex marriage.I mean, regardless of your stance on it, this issue's about as heated as it gets - pretty much the equivalent of political heart burn. Just a day before Obama's big endorsement, voters in North Carolina (where the Democratic Convention will be held) approved a constitutional amendment banning both same-sex marriages \u003cem>and\u003c/em> civil unions (a vote Obama expressed disapproval about). North Carolina is just one of 30 states that have voted in favor of constitutional amendments defining marriage as a heterosexual union. And a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/polling/do-you-think-it-should-be-legal-or-illegal-for-gay-and-lesbian-couples-to-get-married/2012/05/08/gIQAE7CBjT_page.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post-ABC News poll\u003c/a> finds that while the contingent of American's supporting gay marriage has increased in recent years - to just over 50 percent - there is still a ton of strong opposition, especially in many of the swing states that Obama needs to win in the upcoming election. Currently, eight of those 10 swing states don't allow same-sex marriage (Iowa and New Hampshire are the exceptions).\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"1944 http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/?p=1944","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2012/05/10/obamas-evolving-stance-on-gay-marriage-and-the-art-of-the-political-waffle/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":443,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":9},"modified":1432079435,"excerpt":null,"headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"It took just 10 words for President Obama to end his career-long wrestling match with the same-sex marriage issue. During a deceptively casual television interview on Wednesday, Obama simply said: "I think same-sex couples should be able to get married."","title":"Obama's Very Loaded Thumbs Up On Same-Sex Marriage | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Obama's Very Loaded Thumbs Up On Same-Sex Marriage","datePublished":"2012-05-10T18:16:52-07:00","dateModified":"2015-05-19T16:50:35-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"obamas-evolving-stance-on-gay-marriage-and-the-art-of-the-political-waffle","status":"publish","path":"/lowdown/1944/obamas-evolving-stance-on-gay-marriage-and-the-art-of-the-political-waffle","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/obamasamesexmarriage20120509.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1960\" title=\"obamasamesexmarriage20120509\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/obamasamesexmarriage20120509-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>It took just 10 words for President Obama to end his career-long wrestling match with the same-sex marriage issue. During a deceptively casual television interview on Wednesday, Obama simply said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->And with that, Obama made history as the first sitting American president to endorse same-sex marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Obama's stance on the issue doesn't change any existing laws, and his endorsement was almost certainly pressured forward after recent unexpected remarks on the issue by both his vice president and education secretary, (who independently voiced support for same-sex marriage), the president's statement marks a watershed moment in one of this nation's biggest and most contentious social issues. Because even as the country remains bitterly divided about it, a presidential endorsement packs a pretty powerful punch in influencing the debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1143\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/02/gaymarriage.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-1143\" title=\"gaymarriage\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/02/gaymarriage-300x278.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The legal status of same-sex marriage around the U.S. (NPR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Obama, whose position on same-sex marriage has for decades, swayed like a pendulum, this latest statement marks the momentous end ( at least for now) of his drawn out, self-described \"evolving\" stance on the issue. Because, when it comes down to it, Obama is, above all else, a professional politician. Sure, he has strong personal beliefs and values. But his impressive political success has always depended on the ability to delicately balance priorities and values, and to find the comfortable middle ground to retain a solid support base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bottom line for a cautious politician: row the boat, but try not to rock it too much!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given all that, it's little surprise that the guy's balked at supporting same-sex marriage.I mean, regardless of your stance on it, this issue's about as heated as it gets - pretty much the equivalent of political heart burn. Just a day before Obama's big endorsement, voters in North Carolina (where the Democratic Convention will be held) approved a constitutional amendment banning both same-sex marriages \u003cem>and\u003c/em> civil unions (a vote Obama expressed disapproval about). North Carolina is just one of 30 states that have voted in favor of constitutional amendments defining marriage as a heterosexual union. And a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/polling/do-you-think-it-should-be-legal-or-illegal-for-gay-and-lesbian-couples-to-get-married/2012/05/08/gIQAE7CBjT_page.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post-ABC News poll\u003c/a> finds that while the contingent of American's supporting gay marriage has increased in recent years - to just over 50 percent - there is still a ton of strong opposition, especially in many of the swing states that Obama needs to win in the upcoming election. Currently, eight of those 10 swing states don't allow same-sex marriage (Iowa and New Hampshire are the exceptions).\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/lowdown/1944/obamas-evolving-stance-on-gay-marriage-and-the-art-of-the-political-waffle","authors":["1263"],"categories":["lowdown_245","lowdown_256"],"tags":["lowdown_297","lowdown_281","lowdown_296","lowdown_83","lowdown_254","lowdown_114","lowdown_84","lowdown_295","lowdown_265"],"featImg":"lowdown_1960","label":"lowdown"},"lowdown_1331":{"type":"posts","id":"lowdown_1331","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"lowdown","id":"1331","score":null,"sort":[1333496883000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"lowdown"},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1333496883,"format":"aside","disqusTitle":"A Brief History of Social Media (in just over 140 characters)","title":"A Brief History of Social Media (in just over 140 characters)","headTitle":"The Lowdown | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe style=\"border-width: 0pt\" src=\"http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/embed/29314/2969983823/\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/29314/A-Brief-History-of-Social-Media/\" target=\"_blank\">View full-screen version\u003c/a>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2012, Facebook announced that it was filing for an IPO. The company, launched out of a college student's dorm room just 8 years before then, is now estimated to be worth somewhere between $75 billion and $100 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the large impact it has on so many of our lives, it’s important to remember how new social media really is. How did it become a multibillion dollar industry so fast? Scroll through the timeline to learn the short of a very big idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","disqusIdentifier":"1331 http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/?p=1331","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2012/04/03/howd-we-get-here-a-history-of-social-media/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":94,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":["http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/embed/29314/2969983823/"],"paragraphCount":6},"modified":1432177225,"excerpt":null,"headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"View full-screen version","title":"A Brief History of Social Media (in just over 140 characters) | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"A Brief History of Social Media (in just over 140 characters)","datePublished":"2012-04-03T16:48:03-07:00","dateModified":"2015-05-20T20:00:25-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"howd-we-get-here-a-history-of-social-media","status":"publish","path":"/lowdown/1331/howd-we-get-here-a-history-of-social-media","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe style=\"border-width: 0pt\" src=\"http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/embed/29314/2969983823/\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/29314/A-Brief-History-of-Social-Media/\" target=\"_blank\">View full-screen version\u003c/a>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2012, Facebook announced that it was filing for an IPO. 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