September 19, 2018 | Chris Nichols
Gavin Newsom claimed nearly half of California's children are "at or near poverty." PolitiFact set out on a fact check.
September 13, 2018 | Julia Mitric
North Sacramento has big pockets of food deserts where residents have to leave the neighborhood to find a full-service grocery store. Now, some are hopeful a discount grocery store will begin to change the landscape.
August 16, 2018
The number of people living in poverty in California has dropped since the beginning of the decade. But the decline in the overall poverty rate masks considerable geographic differences within the state.
March 5, 2018 | Chris Nichols
Areas with poverty rates of at least 20 percent are eligible.
September 13, 2016 | Ben Adler
California has the highest poverty rate of any state in the nation when cost of living is taken into account, but it’s cut the number of medically uninsured residents nearly in half. Those are among the takeaways from newly-released U.S. Census data.
June 15, 2016 | Steve Milne
The federal government says Sacramento-Arden Arcade-Roseville would be among the U.S. metro areas to qualify for a proposed new rule intended to expand housing choices for low-income families.
January 28, 2016
Dianne Barth from the Stockton Unified School District joins Insight with information about how the district compares to others around the state.
January 25, 2016
Sammy Nuñez is the executive director of Fathers and Families of San Joaquin and represents people struggling with poverty. He joins Insight to explain whether he thinks the governor's programs are enough to help the Central Valley's poor.
January 22, 2016
Are kids more at risk of becoming obese because of their race or their economic status? A group of researchers at the University of Michigan tried to tease out an answer.
December 10, 2015 | Ben Bradford
A new study suggests the recovery from the recession has provided little relief.
