From my link, 2024
"California continues to grapple with significant levels of poverty, leading the nation as the state with the highest poverty rate with disproportionately higher impacts on Black and Latino residents.
According to the latest available Census data, the state’s poverty rate increased to 18.9% in 2023, up from 16.4% in 2022 and 11.0% in 2021. The state’s poverty rate was particularly high among Black and Latino Californians and higher than the 2019 pre-pandemic numbers."
From your link, 2023: