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  • A Tragedy of Two Cities Times Headlines (Los-Angeles begins to sink)

    12/01/2002 8:51:10 AM PST · by RICK77 · 94 replies · 795+ views
    EDITORIAL ^ | 30/11/2002 | United Way Report
    EDITORIAL A Tragedy of Two Cities Times Headlines Los Angeles' Toilet-to-Tap Fear Factor Los Angeles is home to multimillionaire movie execs and billionaire developers. When it comes to the overall value of its goods and services, L.A. County does better than Switzerland, Sweden or Austria. It is also the poverty capital of the nation. To measure the widening gap between the region's haves and have-nots, the United Way of Greater Los Angeles crunched numbers from dozens of government and private studies. Its recently released report, "A Tale of Two Cities: Promise and Peril in Los Angeles County," found that the...