Over the last five years, the number of CalWorks families without a permanent place to live has grown by 98%. That's nearly four times the growth of non-homeless families who are also getting assistance.
If some of these safety-net programs are cut, it will push a lot of people to homelessness.
The increase shows how difficult it is for people on the lower rungs of the financial ladder to improve their situation in the current tough economy, especially because the average amount that Los Angeles County families get from the state has shrunk from $560 a month three years ago to $490 last October.
Grants could become even smaller if Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to reduce CalWorks by about $1 billion.
via latimes.com
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