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Study of state’s woes ignores profit motive http://www.dailyrepublic.com/opinion/statenationalcolumnists/%e2%80%a8study-of-states-woes-ignores-profit-motive/ Solano County's Breaking News Source Sat, 25 May 2013 22:06:44 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Rich Giddens http://www.dailyrepublic.com/opinion/statenationalcolumnists/%e2%80%a8study-of-states-woes-ignores-profit-motive/comment-page-1/#comment-563585 Rich Giddens Tue, 20 Nov 2012 18:21:13 +0000 http://www.dailyrepublic.com/?p=297112#comment-563585 California recently achieved a new milestone as it is now the leader of all fifty states in poverty. In a recent finding by the federal Census Bureau, California has the most people living in poverty with 23.5% of the population living in poverty, stealing the last-place spot for the most impoverished state from Mississippi.

The new measure of poverty, called the “Supplemental Poverty Measure”, incorporates a wide variety of factors such as the peoples’ ability to buy basic services and goods, welfare payments and the costs of food, gasoline and other essentials.

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