California has the highest poverty rate in the USA

Re:California has the highest poverty rate in the USA by rconti on Monday January 15, 2018 @05:19PM (#16153960)

The Op-Ed called it the poverty trap: "55% of immigrant families in the state get some kind of means-tested benefits, compared with just 30% of natives."

However, it failed to cite any kind of causality. It seems just as likely that those kinds of benefits are precisely why they come here.

I'd also be interested in knowing if it's truly a trap -- do immigrant families come here, get those benefits, then move up? Or is it the same 55% decade after decade?

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Re:California has the highest poverty rate in the USA by optimuspaul on Monday January 15, 2018 @05:21PM (#16153982)

immigrants via a loose border? or immigrants that arrived legally? Or immigrants that just came from other states? What does native mean in this context?

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Re:California has the highest poverty rate in the USA by seanmcdirmid on Monday January 15, 2018 @06:21PM (#16154371)

Immigrants from other states vs. native Californians.

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