California Poverty Without Los Angeles

Abstract

This study examines and projects demographic poverty within the state of California without the overpowering statistical dominance of the Los Angeles metropolitan region. The selected population segments include All Persons, Asians & Pacific Islanders, Blacks, Hispanics and Whites. One goal is to provide a portrait of net poverty within the state of California. By the end of the coming decade, poverty is projected to increase 25% to almost 3.8 million persons. This increase is due primarily to the explosive rise among Hispanics. A second goal is to demonstrate a methodology that may be easily applied to other sub-national locales, jurisdictional levels and time frames. The methodology permits computations of annual poverty estimates in the absence of official statistics.