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Re:California has the highest poverty rate in the USA by waxwander on Monday January 15, 2018 @06:26PM (#16154400)
Ummm... LA has more homeless people than any other city because of the weather. NYC winters kill. LA's outdoors are basically like the indoors most other places. No mosquitoes. Only rare rain. 70 degrees most of the time.

Much of California's poor are created elsewhere and they move to California. It's easier to be homeless in California than most other places.

Re:California has the highest poverty rate in the USA by tabtab on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @11:37AM (#16159438)
Indeed that may be a big factor. A better study of who, where, and why is needed to understand the bigger picture. It's premature to fill in details with the typical partisan angles.