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confusedapegenius t1_jdzvu6e wrote

I love that this captures local/state housing costs. That makes much more sense than leaving it out of context.

When extremely rich states like California have the highest poverty rates, it seems to highlight the failure of the real estate housing market in proving economically appropriate shelter for sizeable portions of the population. I would argue that non market housing is an appropriate remedy.

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nine_of_swords t1_je1vxjv wrote

When you take error margins, it gets even more telling. Alabama has the highest margin of error (and by a decent margin, +/- 1.9%, next would be KY/AZ at 1.4). It's error range overlaps with the majority of the error ranges of other states. The only state it doesn't overlap with, where Alabama is the lower range, is California (DC, too, but that's not a state.).

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