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    Commentary: Why is California the poverty capital?

    by Kerry Jackson, Los Angeles Times Jan 16, 2018 4 minutes

    Guess which state has the highest poverty rate in the country? Not Mississippi, New Mexico or West Virginia, but California, where nearly 1 out of 5 residents is poor. That's according to the Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure, which factors in the cost of housing, food, utilities and clothing, and which includes noncash government assistance as a form of income.

    Given robust job growth, it's worth asking why California has fallen behind, especially when the state's per-capita GDP increased approximately twice as much as the U.S. average over the five years ending in 2016 (12.5 percent, compared with 6.27 percent).

    It's not as though

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