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Article: Optimism waning in Silicon Valley?; Santa Clara County loses 231,000 jobs in less than 4 years, report indicates
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- August 15, 2004
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Social worker Luisa Chavarin thought she had
left unemployment and crime behind when she emigrated from
Guadalajara, Mexico, to Silicon Valley, the epicenter of the global
technology industry.
But a four-year economic slump, combined with draconian reductions
in state and federal funding, shuttered her 13-year-old son's after-
school program. Because of budget cuts, trash piles up at her local
park and graffiti does not get painted over.
Everywhere around her are signs that her neighborhood is
regressing, from abandoned cars to sidewalks blocked by rusty grocery
carts.
"Nobody in our community is feeling optimistic," said Chavarin,
38, who coordinates youth programs at a ...