California does not have the highest poverty rate in the USA
As a Californian I don&#x27;t agree with the sentiment of this analysis. Sure, certain segments of the population here are doing well -- particularly, the well-off and those from out-of-state -- but if you were born and raised an average life here any time in the past 35 years, particularly on the coast, then your life is particularly tough in some areas: $1500 rents for a 1BR apartment, super-low wages, apathetic middle class, increasing traffic, now we have a homeless problem....<p>More succinctly I disagree with the authors&#x27; assertion that CA is doing fine &quot;if you take out housing prices&quot;