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发帖数: 6571 | 1 California again has nation’s highest rate of real poverty
By Dan Walters
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Gov. Jerry Brown and state legislators have been crowing about what they did
for California’s poorest residents the last few years.
They raised the state’s minimum wage, improved overtime pay for farm and
domestic workers, enacted an earned-income tax credit, expanded health and
welfare benefits, and provided extra money for the educations of poor
students.
However, their failure to confront the heaviest burden on poor families –
California’s soaring housing costs – will extend California’s
embarrassment of having the nation’s highest rate of real poverty.
A new supplemental poverty measure by the Census Bureau, covering the 2013-
15 period, found that nearly 8 million Californians, 20.6 percent of the
state’s residents, are living in poverty.
While that’s lower than what it was during the previous three-year period,
23.4 percent, the gap between California and other states, which range from
19 percent to 9.7 percent, has widened.
California’s “official” poverty rate, 15 percent, is only slightly higher
than the national rate of 14.5 percent, but its 20.6 percent supplemental
rate is 5.5 percentage points higher than the national rate, 15.1 percent.
The official poverty rate is based on a half-century-old formula that takes
into account only a narrow range of incomes and living costs. The
supplemental rate covers a much wider array of income sources and living
costs, including housing, and is widely considered to be much more accurate.
Deeper dives into the data leave little doubt that California’s high costs
of living, particularly for housing, are a huge factor in its having such a
high proportion of impoverished residents.
A few years ago, the Public Policy Institute of California devised the
California Poverty Measure, which is similar to the Census Bureau’s
supplemental index, and came up with a 21.8 percent poverty rate.
The PPIC study also revealed that the state’s highest level of poverty, 26.
1 percent, was to be found in Los Angeles County, home to a huge immigrant
population working at low-skill, low-wage jobs but confronting very high
housing costs in relation to their modest incomes.
While housing costs in the Bay Area are even higher, its technology-centered
economy also generates much higher incomes so its overall poverty rate
under the PPIC formula is well under the state average.
Supply shortages lie at the core of California’s high housing costs and
thus, of its very high incidence of poverty. Although the state’s current
population growth is quite modest, less than 1 percent a year, that’s still
about 300,000 new Californians every year who need at least 100,000 more
housing units.
Our net housing gain has been about two-thirds of the need in recent years,
which means the demand/supply gap is continuing to widen and drive housing
prices, especially urban rentals, steeply upward.
Brown proposed a modest plan to cut through red tape for some new housing,
particularly low-income, but didn’t make it a high priority, and he and
legislators allowed opposition from narrow interests to block it.
So much for helping the poor.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/dan-walters/article101657302.html | r***i
发帖数: 9780 | 2 不是穷人多，而是懒人多，坏人多
总想着不劳而获，总想着吃别人的
蓝州基本都如此
当然还有部分蓝州，可能是因为蠢人多，被左逼民猪党卖了还要帮人数钱，装装逼 | t*******d
发帖数: 12895 | | w****i
发帖数: 2369 | 4 蓝州变非洲，变墨西哥，喝喝
【在 t*******d 的大作中提到】
: 红州变蓝州，蓝州变。。。？
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