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.
California is a good state to be poor in, the poor get lots of help there in all areas of expenses.
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.
Someone was doing something like that in a recent thread, comparing median income with cost of living. California has a very high median income, but when you adjust for COL, it doesn’t look so great.
Real intelligent point.
Versus AI 😂