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Lol,.. who gives a fuck if the wealth is wrapped up in 0,5% of the populationFact checks-
(1) My previous post and link showing that 70% of US GDP is from blue counties. The counties in the US that elected Biden account for 71% of US GDP. Hard to swallow, but a fact, nevertheless. Look it up yourself.
(2) now let's examine your poverty statement about CA with some facts.
Here's the highest poverty states:
Overall, out of Americans for whom the Census Bureau was able to determine poverty status, 42.31 million lived below the poverty line (or 13.15% of the total population). Poverty rates were highest in the states of Mississippi (19.58%), Louisiana (18.65%), New Mexico (18.55%), West Virginia (17.10%), Kentucky (16.61%), and Arkansas (16.08%), and they were lowest in the states of New Hampshire (7.42%), Maryland (9.02%), Utah (9.13%), Hawaii (9.26%).
(3) and let's examine the poverty rate that you speak of, and compare it to other states:
California 38,589,882 4,853,434 12.58%
Oklahoma 3,833,712 585,520 15.27%
Georgia 10,238,369 1,461,572 14.28%
Texas 28,013,446 3,984,260 14.22%
Florida 20,793,628 2,772,939 13.34%
I'm going to say CA stacks up pretty well.
California keeps its title as having the nation’s highest poverty rate
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2023/09/california-poverty-rate/
Newsflash - Earning less in fly over states doesn’t matter so much when the cost of living is substantially less.
California pretends to care about low and middle income families… yet still enacts policies that crushes them financially