California’s vexing poverty puzzle

California, as we all should know by now, has the nation’s highest rate of poverty as measured by the Census Bureau’s supplemental – and most accurate – methodology.
The primary reason is California’s horrendously high cost of living, particularly for housing, that overwhelms the relatively meager incomes of millions of California families.
Even more troubling is a calculation by the Public Policy Institute of California, using similar methodology, that another 20 p