"L.A.'s Struggles Point to Larger American Failures to Ensure That Prosperity and Health Are Broadly and Equitably Distributed"

"California as a whole can't prosper if its biggest and most diverse metropolitan area keeps floundering. Since the early 1990s recession, L.A. has been a drag on California's, and the nation’s, economic growth and employment. L.A. hasn't matched the gains in wages, education, health, or voter turnout found elsewhere in the state. And it is Los Angeles that has been the biggest driver of high poverty rates and rising inequality across the state."

Joe Matthews at Zocalo argues that "Los Angeles is failing California."