[AuntB]

L.A. County poverty rate increases to 16% in 2009
September 28, 2010 | 2:37 pm

Los Angeles County’s poverty rate jumped to 16.1% in 2009, up from 15.2% the previous year, according to Census Bureau data released Tuesday.

More than 1.56 million county residents lived below the poverty threshold, which is $10,956 for one person and $21,954 for a family of four...

The poverty rate for Latinos was 21.9%,
African Americans 19.7%,
Asians 10.5%
and whites 9.3%.

An estimated 29% of the county’s full-time workers earned less than $25,000 per year in 2009.

The higher poverty level means higher costs for government programs, such as food stamps and unemployment compensation, and potentially heavier tax burdens for the country as a whole.[snip]http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/09/la-county-poverty-rate-increases-to-16-in-2009-.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lanowblog+%28L.A.+Now%29

[absalom01]

The slimes had a story on Sunday that was very sympathetic to the knife-wielding drunk illegal alien. One thing that caught my eye in that story was a toss-off paragraph near the end, in which a member of Guatamala's legislature was quoted urging this guy's widow to apply for a special US visa so she could come here and sue the city of Los Angeles for her husband's death.

If that don't take the cake.