Income gap

The gap between the rich and the poor is greatest in California and one of the reasons has to do with immigration and emigration. Between 2007 and 2016 five million people moved out of California and 4 million moved in but they were quite different in their demographics. The people moving in were high income people from states like New York and Illinois while those moving out were low income earners. The poor working people find it difficult to find affordable housing and things like the cost of utilities and commuting are too high. While the working poor are leaving they are being replaces with non working poor who live on government programs.