Whither California Reason #34

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/05/diaper-duty-for-california-taxpayers.html

https://thinkprogress.org/california-diaper-need-d9abd8c7a3f7/

When ThinkProgress and FoxNews report on the same event you are sure to get wildly different stories.  This is no exception. 

TP: 
California lawmakers passed a bill this week that would give families on welfare with children under the age of two a monthly $50 voucher for diapers. ... When the bill was first introduced in 2014, it was estimated that 120,000 children would get the assistance.
Diapers are a huge expense. One infant can require up to 240 of them each month, which can cost $18 a week or nearly $1,000 a year. That’s an enormous share of a family’s budget for those below the poverty line — people in the lowest quintile spend nearly 14 percent of their income on diapers. Cloth diapers are not a viable alternative for many families, as laundromats won’t let people wash them and daycare centers usually require disposable ones.
That leaves families in a difficult bind. Nearly 30 percent of all women have experienced a time when they couldn’t afford diapers for their children. 

FN:
[T]he legislation comes with a more than $100 million annual price tag.
When it passed recently out of the California Assembly, no Republican voted for it. 
In an emailed statement that appeared in the Sacramento Bee, Republican state Assemblywoman Shannon Grove said, “Instead of expanding our welfare system and keeping millions dependent upon government, we should implement business-friendly policies enabling those out of work to obtain a job and provide for their families.”

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 36 million people and this is what we are legislating.