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Pie chart or graph.
The comparison is more suggestive than subjective. If the calculations were adjusted by the cost of gas, housing, sales taxes, food, and electricity, California would look a lot worse.
Another first for Kalifornia! Nice going Newsom!
The ranking obviously should be by percentage of population in poverty.
“Dumb looking chart.”
Agree. Maybe it fits better into a smaller space better this way...?
I wonder how those numbers would have been affected if…
1) The Democrats did not allow millions of illegals to pour into the country.
And
2) The “free trade” Republicans did not allow millions of factory jobs to leave the country.
🤔
Poverty can’t be measured by measuring an area’s income alone. I lot of people in rural areas grow large gardens, raise their own cattle and other livestock, and eat at home most of the time.
My income is well above the poverty line, but my effective income is substantially lower. I moved 12 miles from the nearest town when the price of gas was much lower, and I bought a sports car rather than something burning less gasoline. The geography of my property makes gardening difficult, being on top of a rocky ridge.
California is a good state to be poor in, the poor get lots of help there in all areas of expenses.
The main misleading thing here is cost of housing.
With California cost of housing and other high expenses such as gasoline California is a poverty nightmare. I don’t understand why this group cannot step up to the statistical reality of this.
The main misleading thing here is cost of housing.
With California cost of housing and other high expenses such as gasoline California is a poverty nightmare. I don’t understand why this group cannot step up to the statistical reality of this.
It looks like the only criterion for “poverty” is income.
My son and I went on a train trip from Washington, DC to Chicago to New Orleans (on The City of New Orleans) to Washington, DC. We could look out of the train windows and get a decent idea of the economic status of the areas the train passed through.
Alabama and Arkansas looked the most impoverished from our vantage on the train. Once we got into Virginia, poverty seemed to diminish the further north we got.
I dunno, but I think poverty can be measured in more than just income.
A good look at San Francisco and LA belies that. Oh we spend a lot, but the poor don't see much of it and would blow the dough if they did. A lot of "middle class" people here are in vehicles.
They should also tell the numbers of drug addicts who are the big drivers of poverty. Every penny a drug addict gets is spent on drugs and alcohol and all the other stuff they get is stolen.
i would guess that the rate of poverty would probably correlate highly with where the most illegal and legal immigrant labor (H1-B,L-1,green card, etc.) has been imported by our gov’t and multinationals.
Looked impoverished. Good. I’d stay away, poor people are icky. Stay on your goofy train. You sound fun .
I ain’t the one riding the train.
Precisely! And the figures should be further disaggregated to indicate, e.g., how many of the poor live on Indian reservations, etc.
Regards,
Tufte would probably have a field day with the stupidity of that chart.
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