Conservatives have more self-control

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"If you look at the official poverty measure in California, we’re about average with the rest of the country," Mayes said. "But if you use the supplemental poverty measure [factors in cost of living], we are in the lead. We have the highest poverty rate in the nation -- higher than New Mexico, higher than any of the southern states, Louisiana, Alabama, higher than Idaho."

I'll just repost this here. These numbers are based on 2014 Census data. That data takes into account factors such as housing cost, cost of living, and so forth.

...and then there is California...highest poverty rate in the nation. But failure will never change the mind of a leftist.

According to Wikipedia, that map takes into account cost-of-living factors such as differential housing costs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U....verty_rate

A neat tool here that shows housing costs by percentage of income in each state.

I'm not sure why some folks insist that the Census Bureau doesn't factor in CoL in its poverty rankings. It does.