California Worst State Poverty Levels

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No. 1 where poverty is worse: California

> Supplemental poverty rate: 20.4% (the highest)
> Official poverty rate: 14.5% (16th highest)
> Cost of living: 13.4% more than national avg. (3rd highest)
> Uninsured rate: 7.3% (22nd lowest)
An estimated 2.3 million Californians live in poverty and are not counted in the state’s official poverty rate. When accounting for taxes, out-of-pocket medical costs, and overall cost of living, California’s poverty rate climbs from 14.5%, which is only slightly higher than average, to 20.4%, which is the highest supplemental poverty rate of any state.
A dearth of jobs compounded by a high cost of living are partially to blame. Housing costs are 47% higher in California than they are on average nationwide, and the overall cost of living in the state is 13% higher than it is on average nationwide. Meanwhile, some 5.1% of California’s workforce are out of a job, the sixth highest unemployment rate among states and well above the 4.2% U.S. unemployment rate.

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