Orange County Register-

Behind California’s status as the fifth-largest economy in the world is the troubling reality that the Golden State is also one of the most impoverished in the nation.

About one in five Californians “lacked enough resources to meet basic needs” in 2016, according to a measure of poverty developed by the Public Policy Institute of California and the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality.

Using the California Poverty Measure, which “accounts for the cost of living and a range of family needs and resources, including social safety net benefits,” according to a recent PPIC publication, 7.4 million Californians lived in poverty in 2016.

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