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mad cow
11-16-2012, 07:26 PM
The Golden State has reached a poverty rate that is now twice as bad as West Virginia’s and substantially worse than the rates of poverty in Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Texas, according to a new measure of poverty developed by the federal Census Bureau.

Democrat-run California earned its last-place rank under the federal government’s new measure of poverty, which incorporates more detailed analyses of welfare payments and the local costs of food, gasoline and housing.


http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/16/golden-state-turns-to-lead-now-leads-poverty-rankings/


Thoughts?

Occam's Banana
11-16-2012, 07:28 PM
Thoughts?

Clearly, the free market has failed. More government programs are needed.

QuickZ06
11-16-2012, 08:30 PM
Clearly, the free market has failed. More government programs are needed.

Yep haha

tod evans
11-16-2012, 08:34 PM
I'd happily ship 95% of our states government employees there to help them out..

klamath
11-16-2012, 08:41 PM
Don't worry we now have supper majorities in the state house to help the poor...........

tod evans
11-16-2012, 08:47 PM
Don't worry we now have supper majorities in the state house to help the poor...........

Please, please take some of ours, obviously you don't have enough...

AGRP
11-16-2012, 08:52 PM
Californians just voted for a tax increase. Help is on its way.

mad cow
11-16-2012, 09:02 PM
Anybody able to find the complete list of States in order?I can't.

klamath
11-16-2012, 09:03 PM
We are the most beautiful state in the union but we are so F@#$$% up and getting worse!

Keith and stuff
11-16-2012, 09:06 PM
Thoughts?

Neither way of calculating poverty is perfect but this way doesn't make any sense at all. It is so crazy I completely ignore it. That said, CA certainly has problems. It is also a very dangerous state though not like LA, TN and near-by NV as 1 of the most dangerous. CA has a ton of problems. There is no need to make up problems for it.

alucard13mmfmj
11-16-2012, 09:56 PM
i want to move to washington state or oregon... but i need chinese food. =s...

youngbuck
11-16-2012, 10:06 PM
California is a failed state. They set the example of what NOT to do. If it weren't for the government and socialist population in CA, it'd be the best state in the country IMO.

Tpoints
11-16-2012, 10:25 PM
really? do they have Detroit style cheap housing?

Ninja Homer
11-16-2012, 10:28 PM
Anybody able to find the complete list of States in order?I can't.

It starts on page 12. First percentage is by the old way of measuring poverty, 2nd is the new way (just find the column where CA is 23.5). http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p60-244.pdf

Keith and stuff
11-16-2012, 10:32 PM
really? do they have Detroit style cheap housing?

No. Because the article is BS.

mad cow
11-16-2012, 10:49 PM
It starts on page 12. First percentage is by the old way of measuring poverty, 2nd is the new way (just find the column where CA is 23.5). http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p60-244.pdf

Thanks.

mad cow
11-16-2012, 10:52 PM
No. Because the article is BS.

You won't find me defending government statistics one way or the other,but the article is not BS,it is simply reporting the news of the day.

Odin
11-16-2012, 11:14 PM
So proud of my state. :(

John F Kennedy III
11-16-2012, 11:21 PM
The Golden State has reached a poverty rate that is now twice as bad as West Virginia’s and substantially worse than the rates of poverty in Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Texas, according to a new measure of poverty developed by the federal Census Bureau.

Democrat-run California earned its last-place rank under the federal government’s new measure of poverty, which incorporates more detailed analyses of welfare payments and the local costs of food, gasoline and housing.


http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/16/golden-state-turns-to-lead-now-leads-poverty-rankings/


Thoughts?

Push Kalifornia off into the ocean.


/Throw Kalifornia in the woods.

John F Kennedy III
11-16-2012, 11:23 PM
Clearly, the free market has failed. More government programs are needed.

We need an international authority to regulate the U.S. federal government.