In Nation’s Largest County, 20% - 2.2 Mil - Now Receiving Public Assistance

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http://www.pensitoreview.com/2009/02/22/in-la-county-22-mil-receive-public-assistance/


In Nation’s Largest County, 20% - 2.2 Mil - Now Receiving Public Assistance
Jon Ponder | Feb. 22, 2009

The Bush economy lives on for the 10 million residents of Los Angeles County:

One in five Los Angeles County residents — nearly 2.2 million people — are receiving public assistance payments or benefits, a level county officials say will rise significantly over the coming months as the fallout from the recession continues.

The percentage of people on county aid already equals the figure at the height of the 2001-03 recession and far exceeds the one in seven who needed help during the economic downturn in the early 1990s and the one in nine assisted in the collapse of the early 1980s.

Unemployment stands at 9.5 percent, which means that one in 10 county residents are out of work. This is about the same level the county experienced during the first Bush recession in the early 1990s.

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1. There you go, Rick Santelli

I suggest the next performance of his rant be held, not on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, but in South Central L.A.

I would start a pool on just how far into his prefabricated rant he'd get before being bludgeoned.

[City Lights]

2. Seconded.

Great idea! :thumbsup:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. In a red power tie and a blue blazer.

[Vapor Trails]

5. Thirded. I'd be willing to chip in for the Louisville Slugger...

For baseball of course...

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

6. careful

Only Ann Coulter is allowed the freedom to call for baseball bashing (of people who think differently, on national cable news, no less).

[izquierdista]

3. Isn't that a redundancy?

Bush recession. If a Bush is in office, of course the bottom 90% are getting shafted.