California’s Poverty Rate Tops 20.6 Percent, Nearly Twice The National Average

National Economics Editorial ^ | Jan 17, 2017 | Spencer P Morrison

[luvbach1]

What is the poverty threshold?

[House Atreides]

“CA has the largest homeless population by far. If you live on the street, you live with a great climate, not knee deep snow.”
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True dat! With the recent legalization of marijuana in California, I expect a gradual migration of very undesirable Mary Jane street people from other less weather-friendly locales such as Colorado. That will be good for those other locations but not so good for California.

[lurk]

But hey, their public employee pension system is in fabulous shape, as sound as Venezuela’s.

[DennisR]

Yep...the three insane COW states. Run by imbecilic dims. Spoken by a native resident in USSR-WA.

[minnesota_bound]

Many images of California homeless.
https://tinyurl.com/y7plusuq

[Don Corleone]

Venezuela on steroids.

[NormsRevenge]

A Socialist Nirvana.. We welcome all comers here,, except more Northeastern politico carpetbaggers. The list is long and growing.. and so is the list of those moving out of state.

[Lizavetta]

Imagine that. Encourage and facilitate as much importation of poverty as you can and then decry how much poverty your state has.

And anyone who thinks this is about helping poor Hispanics and NOT about securing a future voter base is a MAROON.

[Mastador1]

Jerry Brown, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein and all the rest of the liberal leadership are have a big party to celebrate their achievement. But not to worry, they won't slack off because they know they still haven't achieved their goal!

Here they are at a rally!

[nwrep]

Actually I admire the people you show in the photo for their honesty. They were explicit with this back in the 1940s/50s. But now, they have all gone within the folds of the Democrat party, and have cleverly camouflaged their rhetoric. It is no longer this obvious....

[trebb]

60 years or so ago, Kalifornia was luring folks to move there with free college and other perks...they succeeded in becoming a welfare-driven State and can’t tax the productive folks enough to stay in business....it ain’t gonna get better under current circumstances. Stopping illegals will do wonders for many local economies ....

[vetvetdoug]

The poverty rate in California is higher than that in Mississippi. Think about that.