Accounting. The Department of Finance (Finance) is charged with the responsibility for devising the state s uniform accounting system and for setting statewide fiscal and accounting policies and procedures pursuant to Government Code sections 13300 and 13310 respectively. Coordination of the system of accounts kept by the individual state departments with the central accounts kept by the State Controllerâs Office (SCO). 2  Uniform and consistent accounting and reporting among all state departments. 3  Consistency between accounting and budgeting procedures.
The most staggering aspect of this data is that California is, at the same time, the state with the highest poverty rate in the US, based on the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) criterion, with an average of 23.8 percent for the years 2010-2014.
NEW YORK CITY â More than half of all the children in Detroit and Cleveland live in poverty. Detroit, with 57.3 percent of its youngest citizens living in poverty, leads the nation, followed by Cleveland, with 53.9 percent, according to researchers at the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP). NCCP is a research center based at Columbia Universityâs Mailman School of Public Health. Other cities in the top 10 for child poverty are Buffalo; Cincinnati; Newark, N.J.; Miami; Toledo; Milwaukee; New Orleans; and Memphis. The numbers are the latest data available from the U.S. Censusâ 2011 American Community Survey for 2011.