Posted by Fraulein
Some astonishing reporting this week by the always-excellent McClatchy news service on a town in California with a 41 percent unemployment rate. This is a must-read:"It's reminiscent of the Depression," said Silva, Mendota's mayor. "In those days you had soup lines, now you have food lines. This is a disaster area."
Signs of poverty and desperation are everywhere.
Many people in Mendota are turning to alcohol to battle depression, said Amador, the council member. And some single-family homes are occupied by two or three families, in what Amador described as "basically labor camps."
"It's a violation of city code, but you don't want to put these families out on the streets," he said.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
America, 2009
Posted by Fraulein at 11:08 AM
Labels: California, McClatchy Newspapers, Poverty, Unemployment
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