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Staggering Inequality and poverty amid wealth concentration in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley’s annual Pain Index highlights a staggering trend towards economic destitution for a majority of residents.
The 2025 Silicon Valley Pain Index, an annual study produced by San Jose State University’s Human Rights Institute, reveals a social order teetering under the weight of grotesque inequality. Rather than taxing California’s vast concentrations of wealth, Newsom’s austerity budget deepens the crisis by gutting education, housing programs, and social safety nets, even as the cost of living soars. On top of this, Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” means a vast redistribution of wealth to the rich, slashes Medicaid and food stamps, erodes healthcare and worker protections, and funds military and police repression, gravely harming America’s working class and deepening social inequality.
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