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Local Poverty

PolitiFact Check: Does California Have The Highest Poverty Rate In The Nation?

KVCR | By Chris Nichols

Published January 24, 2017 at 10:23 AM PST

California has the highest rate of poverty in the nation when cost-of-living expenses are factored in. That's what State Assembly Republican Leader Chad Mayes recently claimed at a forum in Sacramento. Capital Public Radio's PolitiFact reporter Chris Nichols checked out this eye-opening claim.