Poverty in California
Everybody always cites California’s “Golden Age” — essentially the Pat Brown years — as a time of great accomplishment in infrastructure. Too often ignored is the fact that there were also social achievements in helping the poor and disadvantaged. A new report from the Public Policy Institute of California notes that the state’s poverty rate is higher now than it was in the late ’60s. The story is less true for the country as a whole: The California poverty rate used to be lower than the national mark, now it is higher.
Poverty in California