| Poverty in America |
.... "San Mateo County, home to such leading technology companies as Genentech, Facebook and Oracle, is one of the most affluent counties in the United States. Its unemployment rate in January was 4.9 percent, second-lowest in California behind Marin.
Yet poverty remains a pressing concern. The official level of 7.4 percent is deceiving, according to researchers with the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality. The center published a study last year that argued, when taking high housing and other costs of living into account, the actual poverty rate for San Mateo County is 18.4 percent, which means roughly 136,000 people are struggling to make ends meet." Read article.
Related - San Mateo County Human Services Agency. And the excellent work of our Pacifica Resource Center. (May the Resource Center not have to beg for city funding during the budget sessions this year).
Posted by Kathy Meeh
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