California has retained its position as having the worst poverty of any state, thanks to its very high living costs.
In this photo illuminated by an off-camera flash, several homeless people stand next to their tents across the street from a luxury apartment building in Los Angeles on Jan. 17, 2023. Photo by Jae C. Hong, AP PhotoCalifornia has retained its position as having the worst poverty of any state, thanks to its very high living costs and a large low-income underclass., a weekly must-read on one of California's most pressing issues.
Economists consider the official rates to be misleading because of their simplistic factors, but they remain in the law because they are the basis for many federal and state programs. The “supplemental” rates are calculated on three years of data and California has held the top spot for a number of years, almost entirely because of its extraordinarily high costs of housing, utilities, fuel and other consumer needs.
California’s high poverty rate reflects not only its high living costs, but its substantial underclass of low-income families, many of them recent immigrants who struggle to keep roofs over their heads and food on their tables. The ultimate irony of California’s high poverty rate is that it’s a deep-blue state where all of the political power is held by left-leaning Democrats who profess to sympathize with the plight of the poor.
However, whatever increases the poor see in their incomes are often rapidly absorbed by increasing costs of living, particularly for housing.
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