California Poverty Rate Spikes: One In Six Now Living In Poverty

October 21, 2011

According to a report by the U.S. Census Bureau, nearly six million Californians are currently living below the poverty border.The number of Californians living in poverty jumped from 5.1 million in 2009 to 5.8 million between 2009 and 2010. The poverty rate correspondingly rose to 16.3 percent of the state’s total population.This marks the highest proportion of the state’s population living in poverty in over a decade; however, the poverty rate was significantly higher for much of the mid-1990s—topping outside at small over 18 percent in 1993.Glance at More…
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