re: Speaking of California, this is accurate, correct?

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Buckeye_Vol....if you get all your information from Wikipedia you are in trouble, my friend!

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I love Wikipedia. I didn't use it for my dissertation or anything, but it's a great resource, and it provides links and citations to research, manuscripts, data, etc. So what's your problem with it?

Regardless, maybe you didn't see the links, but just to appease you, I actually downloaded the most recent data from the Census.

Here is the specific data for California:

US Census Quick Facts: California

Although that appears to be 2018, and I also looked at the poverty data that is up to 2017, and it was 33rd at 15.1% compared to 13.3% in the 2018 data. It mentions something about a different methodology that can't be compared to other regions in the 2018 data, but I don't know if that refers to other states or other types or regions.

Either way, it's not anywhere close to last in poverty. Here is the 2017 data with all states:

POVERTY STATUS IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS: 2013-2017 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates