California Inequality, Class Divide Now Similar to Mexico, Expert Says

A woman gestures in support of supermarket workers holding placards in protest in front of a Food 4 Less supermarket in Long Beach, Calif., on Feb. 3, 2021. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

The class divide and inequality in the state of California are currently at levels similar to those seen in Mexico, according to author and university professor Joel Kotkin.

Kotkin, urban futures fellow at Chapman University, and author of “The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class,” told Epoch Times affiliate NTD that a major factor driving residents and business owners out of the state is that the gap between the middle and upper class is now wider in California than virtually any other place in the country.