- Child poverty rate: 28%
- Senior poverty rate: 15%
- Women in poverty: 21.5%
- Percent of single-parent families with related children that are below poverty: 46%
- Number of Black and Hispanic children below 200% poverty: 391,000
- Poverty rate: 19.8% (click here)
- Extreme poverty rate: 9.0%
- Unemployment rate: 7.1%
- Food insecurity: 16.5%
- Low-income families that work: 36.3%
- Minimum Wage: No minimum wage law
- Percent of jobs that are low-wage: 31.4%
- Percent of individuals who are uninsured: 20%
- Number of Black and Hispanic children living in families where no parent has full-time, year-round employment: 232,000
Republican governor and majority Republican in state house and senate.
