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Article: Poverty Rates Climb in Los Angeles, Census Figures Show.
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- May 15, 2002
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Byline: Beth Barrett
May 15--The percentages of rich and poor in Los Angeles, the county and the state surged in the past decade, squeezing the middle class, according to figures released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The trend was sharper in the city, where 22.1 percent of residents live at the poverty level, up from 18.9 percent a decade earlier. This compares with 15.7 percent of city residents who earn more than $100,000 a year, up from 9.7 percent in 1990.
And demographers said the gap in wealth and the shrinking middle class were warning signs of serious problems facing the region in the years to come.
"When you see a divide ...