Outcomes
11.8% of people in California live below the poverty line.
- Children below the poverty line, 2024
- 14.6%
- Country: 15.5%
- Median household income, 2024
- $100,130
- Country: $81,604
- real output grew over five years
- 15.6%
- bills traced into law in 24 months
- 1,048
What became law
Enacted bills traced to their place on the books, latest first.
| Public postsecondary education: priority registration: veterans and dependents of veterans: federal GI Bill. | CA AB 2203 | None | Sep 28, 2026 |
| Public postsecondary education: residency: dependents of members of the Armed Forces: reenrollments. | CA AB 1346 | None | Sep 28, 2026 |
| Dietary supplements for weight loss and over-the-counter diet pills. | CA AB 2030 | None | Sep 28, 2026 |
| Healthy Aging Community Partnership Program. | CA SB 971 | None | Sep 27, 2026 |
| Mental health services: peer support specialist certification. | CA AB 96 | None | Sep 27, 2026 |
| Juvenile courts: temporary probate guardianship. | CA AB 1689 | None | Sep 27, 2026 |
| Kinship family approval. | CA AB 2478 | None | Sep 27, 2026 |
| Judges' Retirement System II: beneficiaries. | CA AB 1844 | None | Sep 27, 2026 |
Coverage is partial, and nothing here says a law moved a number.
Counties by poverty rate: 8 counties
| Trinity County | $50,481 | 5.4% | 23.0% |
| Del Norte County | $58,773 | 6.2% | 19.9% |
| Tulare County | $68,907 | 10.5% | 19.9% |
| Lake County | $55,489 | 7.0% | 19.7% |
| Imperial County | $60,477 | 18.4% | 18.8% |
| Butte County | $65,143 | 5.9% | 18.7% |
| Kern County | $71,295 | 8.7% | 18.6% |
| Merced County | $65,325 | 9.8% | 18.4% |