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