[OC] Percentage of People in Poverty by State Using 3-Year Average: 2019, 2020, and 2021 (Supplemental Poverty Measure)vindictivejazz t1_jdymzh3 wrote
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Probably more cost of living than anything else. I’m comfortably upper middle class in the Midwest but my same salary would put me at or below the poverty line in NYC, DC, or San Fran. Which this measure accounts for
jmlinden7 t1_je0jjcc wrote
It roughly correlates to cost of living, but Hawaii and Washington (which have high cost of living) are still pretty low in this measure.
It's just a combination of cost of living and unadjusted poverty rate. Hawaii and Washington have very low unadjusted poverty rates. California has very high cost of living.
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