Opinion: Brown ignores state’s high poverty rate
By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee
At the very end of his State of the State address to the Legislature last week, Gov. Jerry Brown – almost as an afterthought – tersely declared, “We have too many struggling families …”
Dan Walters
Well, yes, we do. In fact, according to an alternate Census Bureau method of calculating poverty that includes cost of living, nearly a quarter of Californians are mired in poverty, the highest rate of any state.
One would think that fact would have rated more than a throwaway line from the governor as he delivered a report on “the condition of the state.”