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Economy
Census Bureau: California still has highest U.S. poverty rate
2014-10-19
[SACBEE] Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, continues to have ‐ by far ‐ the nation's highest level of poverty under an alternative method devised by the Census Bureau that takes into account both broader measures of income and the cost of living.

Nearly a quarter of the state's 38 million residents (8.9 million) live in poverty, a new Census Bureau report says, a level virtually unchanged since the agency first began reporting on the method's effects.

Under the traditional method of gauging poverty, adopted a half-century ago, California's rate is 16 percent (6.1 million residents), somewhat above the national rate of 14.9 percent but by no means the highest. That dubious honor goes to New Mexico at 21.5 percent.

But under the alternative method, California rises to the top at 23.4 percent while New Mexico drops to 16 percent and other states decline to as low as 8.7 percent in Iowa.
Posted by:Fred

#9  Our poor people are fat - third world poor people are skeleton thin and the children have bloat.
Posted by: Ulearong Sheamble2578   2014-10-19 13:40  

#8  But the CA Supreme COurt did say that Gov. Moonbeam's high speed Lionel can proceed..... so that must be a good thing.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2014-10-19 11:54  

#7  If you have $3,650, you’re among the wealthiest half of people in the world - bookmark for future reference when people start using the term 'income inequity'. Talk about how high the bottom is compared to other countries (as in why Central Americans are swarming the southern border and Clinton era Haitian exodus). There's real inequity created by, ready for it, corruption.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-10-19 10:55  

#6  Airandee is correct. I wish that some of these government bozos could visit some countries and see REAL poverty. I have seen people living in corrugated metal shacks next to an open sewer. And that is in Bangalore, India - the Silicon Valley of India.

In America, "poor" people complain because they can only get a few hundred channels on their flat screen TVs. In really poor countries, they wonder what this "electricity" thing you speak of is. And "food".
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2014-10-19 10:03  

#5  But under the alternative method, California rises to the top at 23.4 percent while New Mexico drops to 16 percent and other states decline to as low as 8.7 percent in Iowa.

If you take out all the natives living on FEDERAL managed and controlled lands, the reservations, from the NM count, it's level of poverty drops even lower.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-10-19 09:54  

#4  The "Golden State" has become tarnished as the left has taken over and strangled the golden goose.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-10-19 08:31  

#3  I like that. Since the so-called 'poor' here would be considered 'middle class' or even 'well-to-do' practically anywhere else on the planet.
But change it to givernment DEPENDENT lifestyle. It doesn't really assist them - just makes them dependent on the givernment drug.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2014-10-19 08:03  

#2  Let me pull a leftist trick. It is not poverty that live in; it is GIVERnment assitited lifestyle. Poverty invokes images of starvation, dirt floors, lack of necessities, lack of hope... That does not exist so let us change the definition of poverty to mean something else.
Posted by: Airandee   2014-10-19 07:56  

#1  Democrats need poor people to harvest votes. SO they implement policies that create lots of them, including open borders, and killing businesses and jobs.
Posted by: OldSpook   2014-10-19 04:58  

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