Why California’s poverty rate is second only to Louisiana
A Pew Charitable Trusts analysis indicates that California's high poverty rate is closely linked to its high cost of rent. Reducing rents to the national average could potentially lower the state's poverty rate by 30%.
The rent, as we all know, is too damn high. So is California’s poverty rate. The two things are related. That’s the not-so-surprising finding of a new analysis published by the Pew Charitable Trusts: If California’s rents dropped to the national average, the state would slash its poverty rate by 30%. The child poverty rate […]
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