California
State Government
Governor
Gavin Newsom (D)
State Senate
32
Democrats,
8
Republicans
State House
62
Democrats,
17
Republicans
Economic well-being - California
Extreme poverty rate
0.1
Food insecurity
0.1
Minimum wage
16.5
Percent of working families under 200% of the poverty line
0.3
Poverty rate
11.8%
Unemployment rate
5.5
Number of Black or African American children living in families where no parent has full-time, year-round employment
Number of Hispanic or Latino children living in families where no parent has full-time, year-round employment
Percent of individuals who are uninsured
5.9
Housing - California
Home foreclosure rate
1 in 3407
People experiencing homelessness
187,084.0
Households paying more than 50% of income on housing
1,633,600.0
Percent renters
0.4
Poverty by demographic - California
Child poverty rate
0.2
Number of Asian and Pacific Islander children below 200% poverty
251000
Number of Black or African American children below 200% poverty
192000
Number of Hispanic or Latino children below 200% poverty
1981000
Senior poverty rate
12.0 %
Women in poverty
19,461,027
The Los Angeles Daily News, June 05, 2013: 4 more LAUSD schools qualify for federal anti-poverty money
"An LAUSD recount of applications for Title I funding determined that four more schools qualified to receive thousands of dollars in federal anti-poverty money, officials said Wednesday. A total of about $182,000 will be shared in 2013-14 by Daniel Pearl High School in Lake Balboa, Enadia Way Charter Elementary in West Hills, Atwater Elementary in Silver Lake and the Performing Arts Community School in South L.A., said Matt Hill, the district's strategy officer."
San Jose Mercury News, June 04, 2013: (Op-Ed) Gov. Brown's school finance reforms: Don't take a few cents on the dollar away from poor districts
"For years, students, teachers and administrators in California's poorest districts have been given every disadvantage possible. Brown wants to fix that injustice. We hope the Legislature will work with him to find a truly just solution."
Los Angeles Times, May 28, 2013: (Editorial) Fairly funding California's schools
"This is the way to fund schools: simple, transparent and cognizant of the fact that disadvantaged students -- who make up 60% of the public school population -- are more expensive to educate, through no fault of their own. Every student in the state must have a safe place to attend school, and the schools of low-income students are more likely to be located in dangerous neighborhoods."
Los Angeles Times, May 20, 2013: Funding to L.A. magnet school restored
"In L.A. Unified, schools with as few as 40% low-income students had been receiving dollars, although at a lower funding level. Last year, with relatively little notice, L.A. Unified raised the minimum to 50%, which added to shortfalls at schools already enduring recession-related cuts. LACES was one such campus, with 46% low-income students last year."
Merced Sun-Star, May 13, 2013: Medicare program penalizing hospitals for readmissions
"The penalties worry some health care experts who say facilities serving low-income communities will be hit the hardest by the new program, part of the 2010 federal health care reform law. Confirming their fears, most of the eight hospitals in California paying the stiffest penalties this year are located in low-income areas, according to the latest numbers released by Medicare in March."
Los Angeles Times, May 13, 2013: (Op-Ed) Closing California's education gap
"Despite the clear benefits of increasing the state's higher education attainment rate, the two major pathways for adult education in California the K-12 school districts and the California community colleges do not have a strategy to increase the rates of the adult enrollment and completion of some higher education."