The Geography of Child Poverty in California, a report and interactive map compiled by the San Francisco-based Public Policy Institute of California, offers a trove of information on variations within counties, much of which had never previously been analyzed.
In Orange County, 27 percent of young children lived in poverty. And the difference between rich and poor areas was wide: from 9 percent in Newport Beach, Aliso Viejo and Laguna Hills, to 48 percent in East Santa Ana.
Seventy-one percent of poor children lived in families with at least one working adult. It is a statistic which speaks to the dearth of living wages in many Southern California industries such as hotels, theme parks, warehouses, retail stores, fast food outlets and home care services.
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