US Census: California passes Mississippi as state with most poverty (wage, cost)
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Guess which state has the highest poverty rate in the country? Not Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia, but California, where nearly one out of five residents is poor. That’s according to the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, which factors in the cost of housing, food, utilities and clothing, and which includes non cash government assistance as a form of income.
Did you bother to read any of the linked articles? Any mention of how the cost-of-living figured into this?
Next we will be treated to posts about that RW paradise, North Dakota.
I think it's completely reasonable to factor in cost of living into the poverty measure. I don't think anyone is claiming incomes in California are the lowest, just that it has the worst combination of incomes and cost of living.
Two, restaurant cooks in Missisippi earning the median wage for a cook could afford a massive mansion with estate sized lot in Missisippi with only two years of hard-work
Did you bother to read any of the linked articles? Any mention of how the cost-of-living figured into this?
Next we will be treated to posts about that RW paradise, North Dakota.
I'm sure the people of California really give a damn too. You can bet that if California was pro Trump it would suddenly become the garden spot of the whole nation. What angers Trumpees the most is that California is so big and powerful, that they can tell Trump to take a hike and get away with it.
I think it's completely reasonable to factor in cost of living into the poverty measure. I don't think anyone is claiming incomes in California are the lowest, just that it has the worst combination of incomes and cost of living.
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You can bet that if California was pro Trump it would suddenly become the garden spot of the whole nation. What angers Trumpees the most is that California is so big and powerful, that they can tell Trump to take a hike and get away with it. 
