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Census Bureau: California still has highest U.S. poverty rate
« on: October 17, 2014, 03:25:17 PM »
And in one of the most liberal states in the union...


California 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.














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The only other state to approach California in the alternate rankings is Nevada at 20 percent, although Washington, D.C., is close at 22.4 percent.

Ever since the Census Bureau first published its “supplemental poverty measure” rankings that placed California at the top a few years ago, poverty has evolved into a political issue.

It’s now routinely cited in official reports and legislative documents, and Neel Kashkari, the Republican candidate for governor, has tried to make it an issue in his uphill challenge to Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, even spending several days in Fresno posing as a homeless person to dramatize it.

The Public Policy Institute of California used a similar methodology last year to gauge poverty in the state’s 58 counties, called a California Poverty Measure.

It pegged the statewide poverty rate at 22 percent and found some of the highest rates in the San Francisco Bay Area and coastal communities usually considered affluent due to their high costs of housing. Los Angeles had the highest rate in the state, 26.9 percent, followed by Napa at 25.5 percent.







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Re: Census Bureau: California still has highest U.S. poverty rate
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2014, 04:01:56 PM »
And in one of the most liberal states in the union...


California 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.














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 Unemployment falls in Sacramento, statewide 









The only other state to approach California in the alternate rankings is Nevada at 20 percent, although Washington, D.C., is close at 22.4 percent.

Ever since the Census Bureau first published its “supplemental poverty measure” rankings that placed California at the top a few years ago, poverty has evolved into a political issue.

It’s now routinely cited in official reports and legislative documents, and Neel Kashkari, the Republican candidate for governor, has tried to make it an issue in his uphill challenge to Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, even spending several days in Fresno posing as a homeless person to dramatize it.

The Public Policy Institute of California used a similar methodology last year to gauge poverty in the state’s 58 counties, called a California Poverty Measure.

It pegged the statewide poverty rate at 22 percent and found some of the highest rates in the San Francisco Bay Area and coastal communities usually considered affluent due to their high costs of housing. Los Angeles had the highest rate in the state, 26.9 percent, followed by Napa at 25.5 percent.







Call The Bee’s Dan Walters, (916) 321-1195. Back columns, www.sacbee.com/walters. Follow him on Twitter

@WaltersBee.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article2916749.html#storylink=cpy


I'm sure if we have Republicans in control that they will make fighting poverty a top priority

They can follow the lead of Congressional Republicans on this issue

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Re: Census Bureau: California still has highest U.S. poverty rate
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2014, 04:57:02 PM »
I'm sure if we have Republicans in control that they will make fighting poverty a top priority

They can follow the lead of Congressional Republicans on this issue

Great strategy Straw Man

Don't talk about the fact that decades of liberal policy is directly responsible for the state that California is in.

Instead introduce Congressional Republicans into the conversation that have nothing to do with how California got the way it is.

Diversion much?

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Re: Census Bureau: California still has highest U.S. poverty rate
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2014, 06:16:41 PM »
Great strategy Straw Man

Don't talk about the fact that decades of liberal policy is directly responsible for the state that California is in.

Instead introduce Congressional Republicans into the conversation that have nothing to do with how California got the way it is.

Diversion much?

Don't be hard on him.  Cheerleading and water carrying can be tough sometimes.  

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Re: Census Bureau: California still has highest U.S. poverty rate
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2014, 06:28:19 PM »
Great strategy Straw Man

Don't talk about the fact that decades of liberal policy is directly responsible for the state that California is in.

Instead introduce Congressional Republicans into the conversation that have nothing to do with how California got the way it is.

Diversion much?
No shit, then when Califorians started to flee yp here to Washington, they started telling us how backwards we were and tried implementing the same fucking laws that bankrupted them.

Insanity.

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Re: Census Bureau: California still has highest U.S. poverty rate
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2014, 07:46:58 PM »
Great strategy Straw Man

Don't talk about the fact that decades of liberal policy is directly responsible for the state that California is in.

Instead introduce Congressional Republicans into the conversation that have nothing to do with how California got the way it is.

Diversion much?

you sound like an expert so please fill me in on the decades of liberal policy that is DIRECTLY responsible for the poverty rates in CA

btw - take a quick look again at the article and note that they recently changed the way the calculated the poverty rate and prior to that change CA's rate wasn't that much higher than the national average


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Re: Census Bureau: California still has highest U.S. poverty rate
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2014, 07:53:16 PM »
no kidding, look at our location and our welfare rolls

of course the poorest from mexico come here, why wouldn't they?

then our massive income and sales taxes that fund their benefits raise the cost of living for everyone so we all become poorer

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Re: Census Bureau: California still has highest U.S. poverty rate
« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2014, 07:54:06 PM »
No shit, then when Califorians started to flee yp here to Washington, they started telling us how backwards we were and tried implementing the same fucking laws that bankrupted them.

Insanity.

didn't people really leave CA due to the high cost of real estate

can you give some examples of them trying to implement the "laws that bankrupted CA"  (btw - when did CA declare bankruptcy?)