Posted on 09/20/2012 8:56:34 AM PDT by AmericanSamurai
More than 330,000 Californians fell below the poverty line in 2011, bringing the ranks of California's poor to more than 6.1 million, according to statistics being released Thursday from the U.S. Census Bureau.
The statewide poverty rate hit 16.6 percent in 2011, up by .8 percent from the year before. A family of two adults and two children counts as poor if its combined income is less than $22,811.
Among big metropolitan areas, the nation's second-worst poverty rate was in the Fresno area, where 25.8 percent of the population live below the poverty line. The sixth-lowest poverty rate nationwide and California's lowest for a big urban area was in the South Bay, where 10.6 percent of residents were poor.
The median household income of Californians also dropped to $57,287 in 2011, down nearly 4 percent from the year before, when it was $59,540, according to the newly released estimates from the Census Bureau's annual American Community Survey.
California was one of 18 states that experienced a drop in income from 2010, while only one state, Vermont, saw household incomes rise. In the worst-hit state, Nevada, household income dropped by 6 percent. The numbers are adjusted for inflation.
The survey also found growing income inequality in California and many other states, but found a 3.3 percent rise over a 3-year period in the number of young adult Californians who have health insurance.
They are living in the wrong country is all.....Send `em home.
They should be thrilled. They got exactly what they voted for.
“They should be thrilled. They got exactly what they voted for.”
Exactly.
Well said.
Us smart ones quit the state for Texas.
Born and raised in So. Cal. But I won’t stay where I am not wanted. When someone says “You work hard for a good living — HAND IT OVER!” it is time to leave.
Good luck Cali. You’re on your own.
They will probably vote for him again.
.. but their air is cleaner than ever. :-}
Another gift from Obama. How anyone could still be supporting that guy is beyond me.
Liberal Utopia = poverty
If they weren’t importing poverty from Mexico illegally they wouldn’t have so much.
That's the poverty line in California? Seriously?
About the only place you could exist on that is the central valley, where nobody wants to be (smells like cow patties.)
Except when that Japanese air glows in the dark...
Hey! Jerry Brown! Your brother Charlie called. He says you should be in the comics.
5.9 million of ‘em are illegal.
Like, Unexpected.
Born and raised in the San Francisco bay area. Fled the state ten years ago for the Pacific Northwest, never to return. Traded blue for blue, but the scenery is nicer and I'm closer to Canada than I am to Mexico.
Geez, when you punish success and hard work.... you get less of it??
How does that work?? ////sarcasm
But food stamps, section 8 housing payments and welfare benefits aren’t counted as income. So “poverty” is a relative term.
Good.
I hope it gets much worse for them.
Democrat controlled state living in poverty,expected.
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