> If you look at real purchasing power, California ranks #37 That's not PPP. It's a measure created by the Tax Foundation think tank and published by AEI, both

> If you look at real purchasing power, California ranks #37 That's not PPP. It's a measure created by the Tax Foundation think tank and published by AEI, both of which obviously have an ideological agenda. Their results seem questionable to me: New York is in the bottom half, and Oregon and Hawaii are below impoverished Mississippi. I'd prefer to use numbers from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis. Here [1] is a table of results pretty much straight from there. (You can find the simple methodology if you scroll down.) According to that data, California's per-capita income rank actually goes up when you take cost of living into account. [1]: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2018/05/10/cost-of-living-value-of-dollar-in-every-state/34567549/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2018/05/10/cost...