Posted on 07/19/2015 12:00:07 PM PDT by artichokegrower
When the Census Bureau began calculating poverty a half-century ago – as a “war on poverty” became a hot issue in Washington – it devised a rather simple formula.
The formula defined income that would be counted – excluding non-cash income such as food stamps and housing subsidies – and applied it to a narrow “market basket” of food and other living necessities.
All the data were nationwide, with no adjustments for regional or local differentials.
By the official poverty index, California doesn’t fare too badly, with 17 percent of its residents impoverished, a bit above the national rate of 15.9 percent.
However, it’s long been recognized that the formula is flawed, not only because it excludes some kinds of income, but because its living costs are incomplete and there is no adjustment for the very wide differences in housing and other costs from state to state and community to community.
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How's that open border sanctuary city deal working out for you California?
chasing out business and wealth helps a lot!
BS. The illegals in front of me all week long paid for their groceries with their magical welfare card.
California is a giant boil on the butt of the USA.
Democrat Party policies = government induced poverty.
well...being on welfare counts as impoverished...
replace “California” with DEMOCRATS/RINOs...and I think you are right
If these people are so valuable to our economy, why didn’t/doesn’t Mexico do something to keep them?
Trying to get anywhere in a auto in Southern California is more than just plain hard work. It is beyond crazy. God help them if a 8.0 quake ever hits near the coast.
The poverty rate could be lowered significantly by moving recipients of government assistance to agricultural areas where they could work on farms.
Hmmm, Gasoline at my home in
Arizona is $2.70
California $4.39
My Electric bill in
Arizona 1079 KWH $119
California 1246 KHW $290
I doubt ENERGY prices have anything to do with it, what do you think./s
How many of them work for cash? I call BS on this. Either they are working in the underground economy, they are on welfare, or both. Plus the kiddies are getting free food and an education, of sorts, in the government schools
no worries - all those millions of imported “dreamers” will come up with a solution to this.
I have heard that 25% of Mexicans are living in the US illegally
The poverty rate could be lowered significantly by moving recipients of government assistance to agricultural areas where they could work on farms
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The farmers need water more than they need welfare recipients.
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