Why California Should Position Itself as a Mecca for the Poor
For One, It's a Strategy That Worked for the United States of America
Fresno regularly ranks as one of the poorest metro areas in the United States. So why do people keep moving there?
The short, if incomplete, answer: Fresno is in California. And there is something very different about our state’s poor cities.
In other parts of America, people have abandoned cities labeled poor—because of high poverty rates and low rates of education among residents—in big numbers. Detroit’s population fell from 1 million in 1995 to 688,000 today. Cleveland’s population dropped from 500,000 in 1999 to less than 390,000 today. Population declines have …
