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California’s Newly Poor Push Social Services Network to Brink

February 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment

By Vivien Lou Chen

Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) — In California’s Contra Costa County, 40,000 families are applying for just 350 affordable-housing vouchers. Church-operated pantries are running out of food. Crisis calls have more than doubled in the city of Antioch, where the Family Stress Center occupies the site of a former bank.

California’s Newly Poor Push Social Services Network to Brink

Categories: Food Banks · Food Shortage · Low Income · agriculture · economy · poverty
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