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California Cuts 1 Million from its Poverty Ranks, by one Measure
The Mercury News reports on how California has trimmed its poverty rate

Golden Gate Bridge

May 14, 2018

California is an expensive place to live, and the state’s lofty poverty levels as revealed by several measurements certainly reinforces the pain of heavy cost burdens.

But one should also note the state’s noteworthy and broad economic revival from the Great Recession has significantly trimmed the ranks of the impoverished by those same metrics.