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Originally Posted by dimondpark
After looking up SPM rates Im left confused not by CA but by other states. California(and NY and NJ) is understandable because the median home price and rental rates are very high.
What's Florida, Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina and Texas' excuse for being so high?
SPM Poverty Rate(Official Poverty Rate)
19.0% CA(13.4%)
18.1% FL(14.3%)
15.6% GA(15.6%)
15.5% AZ(15.5%)
15.5% NY(9.7%)
15.1% NJ(13.2%)
14.7% TX(14.0%)
14.3% NC(14.4%)
12.9%US(14.1%)
Florida is right behind CA. How can that be?
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The highest concentrations of poverty in Texas, which skew the statewide average downward, are primarily located along the Rio Grande (El Paso metro, Del Rio micro, Eagle Pass micro, Laredo metro, Rio Grande City micro, McAllen-Edinburg metro, and Brownsville-Harlingen metro).
Sure, there are other poor areas (cotton farming areas on the South Plains around Lubbock and also Deep East Texas in general), but you have to keep in mind that the Texas-Mexico portion of the border is
1,200 miles long.