AMERICAN THINKER
If Immigration Creates Wealth, Why Is California America’s Poverty Capital?
by Spencer P. Morrison
February 23, 2018

California used to be home to America’s largest and most affluent middle class.  Today, it is America’s poverty capital.  What went wrong?  In a word: immigration. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Official Poverty Measure, California’s poverty rate hovers around 15 percent.  But this figure is misleading…Accounting for these differences reveals that California’s real poverty rate is 20.6 percent – the highest in America, and nearly twice the national average of 12.7 percent. READ MORE