California Keeps Its Title as Having the Nation’s Highest Poverty Rate
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Congratulations California, you’ve done it again — retained your title of having the highest level of poverty of any state.
Dan Walters
CalMatters
Opinion
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Dan Walters has been a journalist for nearly 60 years, spending all but a few of those years working for California newspapers. He began his professional career in 1960, at age 16, at the Humboldt Times. CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more columns by Dan Walters, go to calmatters.org/commentary.
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