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.
This is beyond depressing.
I don’t feel one iota for them as a state. They have picked and chosen to live like this through what they have elected to government and coddling the equivalent of several large cities worth of illegal immigrants.
I know that the people that can leave are or have.
To see poverty and misery on this scale is just gut wrenching to see and when the checks stop coming the bloodshed will be biblical, just horrific.
More than 6 million fewer in Mexico are now living in poverty.
They have pics of people picking up food. Out of 4 pics, 1 is white and 3 have Mexican surnames.
It just gives California government an excuse to promote stealing more money from the haves to hand it over to the have nots.
I saw that...Had to be sure to find one white couple. Also, those vans they have sure look nice...Hmmm.
Not after food stamps, welfare and all of the other handouts they get.
Do you remember the article that said a family of four earning $29,000 lives better than a family of four earning $59,000, due to all of the government handouts?
“More than 6 million Californians now living in poverty”
Well, there’s only one solution: increase taxes and redistribute the wealth to those who need it most!
I would add the “sarcasm off” tag, but this is EXACTLY what they’re going to do.
What defense is sarcasm against the inevitabilities of leftism?
While I believe California is largely infested by liberals (actual citizens) in their heavily populated areas of SF, Oakland, LA, etc., tying an ambiguous ‘poor’ connotation to an even more ambiguous description of ‘the group’ is even more specious. I’d be willing to be, a majority of the ‘Californians’ they say are ‘poor’ are, in fact, illegal aliens - undeserving of any public welfare.
If they are starving here, then go the hell home. We don’t want you here. You add no value to our stewpot.
obama needs those votes.
How many illegally came to California from south of the border with nothing in their pockets and applied for aid or even have a cash paying job that they then use to wire money back home?
Exactly! If you count those things those counted as poor are sometimes better off than those that don’t qualify for help.
Unless you’re one of “Holder’s People”, in which case your food stamps count as income:
snip-”Instead of using passé measures of creditworthiness such as, say, credit history and having an adequate income, ACORN convinced lenders to adopt “more flexible underwriting criteria that take into account the realities of lower income communities.” Henceforth, some banks serving inner cities would accept “less traditional income sources such as food stamps.”
http://spectator.org/archives/2008/10/29/acorns-food-stamp-mortgages/print
If you’re living on more than world median income ($2/day) you’re not poor.
The “poverty line” is 20x that.
And when you reward lawbreakers, with countless handouts, how can the numbers of those people increase?
Like you, I just don't get it. /s
I wonder how that economic genius Paul Krugman feels about this?
//sarc
Yeah, so do I. /s
Good point.
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