California's poverty map has changed, argues Sarah Bohn, of the PPIC. Indigence used to be concentrated inland, in agricultural regions with lots of cheap, seasonal labor. Now the poorest counties are on the southern coast, including Los Angeles and Orange counties. Most of the poor have jobs...
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A railroad-rate war (1884) and a boom in real estate (1885) fostered a new wave of overland immigration. Cattle raising on the ranchos gave way to increased grain production. Vineyards were planted by 1861, and the first trainload of oranges was shipped from Los Angeles in 1886....
While California is one of the most well-known states in the U.S., is home to Silicon Valley, and one of the states where personal income has been increasing over the past 20 years, not everyone in California is so lucky: In 2023, thepoverty rate in Californiawas about 12 percent, an...
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Despite the national decline in child poverty and low-income rates in the United States since the early 1990s, the rates in California have surpassed those of the nation. This demographic profile of California's low-income families highlights the high number and rate of low-income children in ...
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The U.S. poverty rate increased to a 14.3 percent in 2009, the highest level since 1994. St. Anthony Foundation serves an average of 2,600 meals a day to homeless and impoverished people in San Francisco. (AFP Photo / Justin Sullivan) © AFP There is much talk in Washington, DC ...
The cost of living is the major factor in California’s having the nation’s highest rate of functional poverty, 15.4%, as calculated by the Census Bureau. Using a similar methodology, the Public Policy Institute of California calculates that in 2023, 31.1% of Californians are living either in...