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Opinion: Poverty Persists in California Because False Narratives Drive Policy
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A mobile food pantry in San Diego. File photo courtesy MiraCosta College New Census data recently confirmed what many advocates saw coming: We squandered one of the greatest achievements in antipoverty policy this nation has ever known.  In one year, we went from a record low poverty rate of 7.8% — and child poverty being cut nearly in half to 5.2% — to the largest ever single-year rise and the child poverty rate increasing by a stunning 138%. In California the poverty rate for children under age 18 rose from 7.5% to nearly 17%.  This increase in hardship directly resulted from not renewing the expanded Child Tax Credit, or CTC, as inflation struck, making clear that poverty is

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