{"id":7881,"date":"2022-01-09T12:23:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T19:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=7881"},"modified":"2022-01-07T14:24:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T21:24:00","slug":"congressman-mike-levin-releases-tone-deaf-year-end-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=7881","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Mike Levin Releases Tone Deaf Year-End Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by William Hale<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mike Levin has released a letter summarizing 2021 in his 49th district, which spans from South Orange County to North County San Diego. With Levin up for election this coming November, the Congressman has every incentive to paint this past year as a glorious fiscal and social success.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But despite Levin\u2019s unconcerning portrayal of 2021, there remains unacknowledged problems regarding unemployment, inflation, and gas prices that affect Californians on a practical level every day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/links.nrccvictory.com\/u\/click?_t=daa25830132f4a06b3946938575b325a&amp;_m=9108c3a275d6485d932be04b2660f127&amp;_e=4_1Z9UtbEY1vXq8-5NezK3biSD7ZDQQL0yN_FuXmlicbuwohbSJy5IzA4iCdSetBp-FWobZW2vHCmD791-3sG25vXqTTG3R-kkHAdh5r5dv7ViOoiVgJx5ZqsCIqZN7G_4Ze6PBDSfVVBUeHPHDH6rhmbvyvtsL5T6kj-XW4fpMohvm25FL2ZyWtgC8jv1ZKxfaLToBnRiAopWaSGy-VrdbWSMD3scUqyAmqAYEX5bGYFFsB3MdiZ0El4xIa25ERbwRQ3eIHDWCaGndG__Nkj-GsAljsXxPJ9tIjdjgMErORcnJmBnFOzTP47DAgdHuPVgy-xt47q5KBQ13DlN6aAfOahLwEzy5QSmmAOMFMOhjr43fRit94rhixikhgJbYBT4ZXH4oMLYNCNgPwESbQ9pskRfzuxYgIxOoJudusufYvNkJFi5VafD2IS6iR4UoI_Xxx_mPM6FHeXgAGFhMZAYG-nYl8yaTBUw2LXK1c-RKOh30AX2Hjsp2lv8tLkT_5f3c94wHSdw_jXnCZ_jHFQe3d1qzUK8W-fHp_coTUuxu9n704q_nXEUX_SffHe7YCXAtn_2yIDDWLVLykoRUN7bpnlMgoMRVqFPUiA4iPvKDlvJaQ5NifaCzoBr1m9g8gKFO4m8k-F4Yqv6Uny1gP5RKpQrJ2vYtxEFe1cS6K9p4Cjy6yz5c2jGfR6cunrTBhxinG-bqKVR2J5wqEu1aL9DFt75LHaBzKul3kyGoLKzvwqiJCsWhiT91jEDSTegLLE3zR0RmqHROZ7EGzwEmziA2R_29VQ0I91qDFrOfXbvA%3D\">In his letter<\/a>, Levin mentions that \u201c&#8230;unemployment reached its lowest point since 1969.\u201d Yet California certainly isn\u2019t excelling in this category. In fact, California has the highest unemployment rate in the country \u2014 as of November, 2021, California had an unemployment rate of 6.9%. This is in accordance with many other Democratic-leaning states such as Nevada, Illinois, Colorado, and New York, with all these states having higher unemployment rates than the national average of 4.2%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However unemployment wasn\u2019t the only pressing issue dismissed by the Congressman in his year-end letter.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/los-angeles-gas-prices-orange-county-end-of-year-highest\/2788895\/\"> In Orange county inflated gas prices have reached an average of $4.65 per gallon<\/a>, that\u2019s nearly $1.50 more than one year ago. Unfortunately, experts are predicting this trend of increasing gas prices won\u2019t subside in 2022 \u2014 some southern California cities should expect over $5.00 per gallon this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Levin suggested that President Biden\u2019s American Rescue Plan played a key part in 2021\u2019s \u201csuccesses.\u201d But the ARP has produced the opposite effect suggested by Levin, as the $350 million in federal relief spread throughout the 49th district has only accelerated the inflation felt by Californians looking to buy groceries and shop for holiday gifts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If there is one thing Levin got right in his Op-ed: \u201cI know there is much more to do in 2022.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Photo Cred: Bill Slane\/ Coast News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by William Hale Mike Levin has released a letter summarizing 2021 in his 49th district, which spans from South Orange County to North County San Diego. With Levin up for election this coming November, the Congressman has every incentive to paint this past year as a glorious fiscal and social success.\u00a0 But despite Levin\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Congressman Mike Levin Releases Tone Deaf Year-End Letter - San Diego News Desk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=7881\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Congressman Mike Levin Releases Tone Deaf Year-End Letter - San Diego News Desk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Written by William Hale Mike Levin has released a letter summarizing 2021 in his 49th district, which spans from South Orange County to North County San Diego. 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