Working Poor Need Services
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Your Aug. 20 article regarding L.A. County’s success in moving people from welfare to work is heartening--on the surface. Too often, hard-working former welfare recipients are moved not only into low-paying jobs but also into the ever-expanding world of the working poor.
In the world of the working poor, people such as the busboys who clean our tables cannot always afford to put food before their own families and the people who watch our children during the day cannot afford child care for their own youngsters.
This situation is growing. Recent reports in this and other media point to a growing income gap in L.A. County and a higher than average number of men, women and children living at or below the poverty line even though they are working at least one job.
United Way is responding to this trend by supporting and promoting a community safety net of basic health and human services that are open and available to all people.
United Way hopes that no one forgets that these people also require a wide network of basic services in order to continue to assist them in their honorable effort to provide a better life for themselves and their families.
JOSEPH V. HAGGERTY, Pres.
United Way of Greater L.A.
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