Opinion: Poverty not an action item for Legislature
By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee
Poverty is the issue du jour of this year’s legislative session – with good reason.
Dan Walters
By an alternative Census Bureau method of calculating poverty, including the cost of living, 23.4 percent of California’s 39 million residents are impoverished, the nation’s highest rate.
A Public Policy Institute of California study found that poverty is fairly consistent throughout the state, although Los Angeles County, with high living costs and mediocre incomes, has the highest.