Much is made continually of this state's poverty rate, now running above 13%. Most polls show voters rank homelessness as even more of an issue, though, with about 70% in all recent public surveys naming that as California's biggest problem.
Some numbers cited in the preamble to the $6.38 billion Prop. 1 provide evidence for all this: One of every 20 adults in California now lives with serious mental illness; one in 13 California children of school age suffers serious emotional disturbance; one in 10 Californians has som.
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