https://www.ppic.org/blog/overwhelming-majorities-are-concerned-about-homelessness-support-many-policies-to-address-it/

California’s high poverty has been at the top of all the states, and the reason for this is that none of the other states have had poverty of this size ever. California has been a problem for many years. For this reason, the poverty rate has risen from 16.4% to 18.9 %. This demonstrates the rise of prices and inflation that California has; a detailed example is “California poverty rate increased to 18.9% in 2023 from 16.4% in 2022 and 11.0% in 2021”. This information was found on calbudget.org, and The inflation looks horrible compared to the 37% drop in poverty in Oregon. The rates of California since 2010 have been,2010  13.7%, 2011 14.4%,2012 15.3%,2013 15.9%, 2014 16.4%, 2015 16.3%,2016 15.8%,2017 15.1%,2018 14.3%,2019 13.4%,2020 12.6%,2021 12.3%,2022 12.2%, and 2023 12%. This rate has been on a slow decline, but since 2010, California has gained 2.7% and then lost 4.2 %.  The progress that California is making to stop this is so far the worst state to drop poverty rates. A reason poverty is so high in this state is because of how expensive everything is.

Even though California has the worst poverty rate, it is trying to fix this; for example, it is creating federal payments to many in poverty and enhancing unemployment insurance. The reason for this slight drop is that California has the highest population out of all the states. Next comes Louisiana, then DC, Florida, and finally Mississippi.

Even though California has the highest poverty rate of 7.3 million out of all the states, this is the worst; they also have shown by giving back during the pandemic, but this donation also could have been better because it has yet to develop the highest human population of 39 million fully. California is trying to eliminate poverty, which is demonstrated by giving back supplies during the pandemic, but this also could have been further developed by donating food, money, and clothing to people in need and the reason for this is it has yet to develop fully However, this could have been better because it has yet to develop fully.  Even though they are trying, poverty has only increased by this much because people are leaving the state to go to different, less expensive states. For example, California is raising real estate by 17 % compared to last year; in other states, the housing cost is cut by more than half compared to California, such as Illinois, which has 39% less than California. Not only are people leaving California because of poverty, but California is raising the price of houses by 17% in the same time frame. We are entering a world of technology. Doesn’t it seem that decreasing the poverty rate would be a simple task? For example, if you consider the pre-pandemic days, 2017 to 2019, California is as high as ever, even though this is true now; after five years of inflation, California is the worst state by far. And if you also consider the entire world, California is 6th worst on the list. In conclusion, California has not decreased its poverty rates or its housing rates and has also increased them while other states have much more affordable rates to live in as of this day.