Joseph Gonzalez is looking to chart a new path forward after a misdemeanor 5 years ago followed him until today. “It was a big mistake.

But low-income communities—who are at the greatest risk of these disasters—are about to feel the biggest blowback. The number of natural disasters that cost over a billion dollars has increased more ...

One concern is that a wealth tax might lead to people shifting investments abroad, but the design of the tax avoids this ...

On Wednesday, Congressman Raul Ruiz, M.D. (D-CA) sent a letter to Governor Gavin Newsom urging him to reconsider any plans ...

California has the nation’s highest rate of poverty as defined by the Census Bureau when it ... to be poor in terms of ...

California has morphed from a state with high economic and social mobility to one of relatively rigid classes defined by ethnicity, income and wealth.

Child poverty in the United States more than doubled and median household income declined last year when coronavirus pandemic-era government benefits expired and inflation kept rising, according ...

and why its poverty rate is the nation’s highest. One might also wonder why, if California’s economy is so healthy, the state budget is experiencing chronic multi-billion-dollar deficits.

There are two main measurements of low income used by the government, absolute poverty and relative poverty. Income is counted as the money a household has to spend after housing costs are taken ...