Gavin Newsom literally started his career with funding from a billionaire, but he was also raised by a single mother with 3 jobs

Gavin Newsom’s political story has always been a study in contrasts: a young entrepreneur whose first big break came from a billionaire family friend, and a boy raised by a single mother juggling three jobs to keep the lights on. That tension now echoes in California’s bitter fight over a proposed wealth tax on billionaires’ assets, a debate that hits close to home for a governor who sits squarely between privilege and precarity.​ For now, in this instance, he thinks the billionaires tax is “bad economics” and has vowed to defeat it.