State Poverty: The Case of California.

This study serves two purposes. First, it demonstrates a method of estimating and projecting annual poverty at sub-national levels. Data are obtained from decennial censuses to form the benchmarks from which poverty is estimated and projected for various demographic groups. The second objective is to provide a specific portrait of poverty within the State of California. The evidence indicates that California can anticipate a sharp increase over the decade in impoverished residents, where the primary source of this rising poverty is its growing Hispanic community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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