Poverty in California remains highest in US, tied with Louisiana, report says | California
A new report shows that California has the highest poverty rate in the United States, along with Louisiana, and that rates have little improvement.
Despite plenty of reserves in the state – California lives more billionaires than other parts of the United States – in 2024, approximately 7 million people or 17.7% of the inhabitants could not meet their basic needs. In 2021, California’s poverty rate reached a low level of 11%, but when Pandemiye period policies ended, rates in the state and the United States increased. California Budget and Policy Center It was released last week.
The non -profit research and analysis found that the poverty rates in California remained “unchanged unchanged ından from the 2023 levels and that color, tenants and children are among the most affected. Child poverty in the state has increased more than twice since 2021.
“These figures reflect a disturbing tendency that began with the return of historical poverty-fighting investments to emphasize that COVİD-19 PANDEM-19 PANDEM-PERSONALITY is a policy choice,” he says.
“When the Congress allowed the end of these effective policies, they immediately reversed the progress and caused the greatest increase in the national poverty rate and a significant increase in the poverty rate of the national poverty in 50 years.”
California made significant investments during Pandemik and made temporary economic protections for unprotected people, including motel rooms, evacuation moraper, and rent aid. However, when these programs ended, poverty in the state increased.
The report states that now the poverty rates of the deductions at federal and state levels will increase further. The authors point to the federal budget of Donald Trump, who signed the law earlier this year, this indicates a state budget with health services, food aid and other support for millions of people and “important discounts in health services. Experts warned that Trump’s budget would have a major impact on the country’s social security network and described it as the hardest invoice we’ve seen since the budget deficits have become a problem 40 years ago.
In addition to other suggestions, the report requires one of the state leaders to be “brave action öne from the application of a licensed corporate tax rate and the termination of some corporate tax deductions.
“In order to be a state for the development of everyone, independent of race or ethnicity, gender and other identities of California, state leaders should act bravely to reduce the increase in poverty and to provide a different vision for California to offer a different vision from the recent months.
