Poverty among Los Angeles
community college students reaching crisis levels
By Glenn
Mulwray
26 August 2017
One in every five of the Los Angeles Community College District’s
(LACCD) 230,000 students are homeless and nearly two thirds can’t afford
regular meals. These are the results of a fall 2016 survey of LACCD’s nine
campuses conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and released earlier
this year. More than 6,000 students took part in the survey and reported crisis
levels of social neglect related to the high cost of living in Los Angeles.
In regard to housing, 19 percent of those surveyed are or were
recently homeless. Eight percent had been thrown out of family homes; 4 percent
had been evicted from rental housing; 3 percent were living in shelters; 6
percent had resorted to living in abandoned buildings, cars or other locations
not meant for habitation; and 11 percent did not know where they would be
sleeping on a night-to-night basis.
Since 1980, median real rent for an apartment in Los Angeles has
increased by 55 percent to $2,511, while income levels increased only 13
percent in that time. Nationally, the decade with the greatest rent-wage
discrepancy was 2000-2010, when rents increased 12 percent while incomes
actually declined 7 percent. These are some of the most striking indications of
the destruction of living standards resulting from the 2008 global recession.
As of 2017, Los Angeles has the highest rent burden of any city in
the country, with the average tenant paying 48.7 percent of their income to
rent. The city’s large and overwhelmingly working class black and Latino
communities spend an astronomical 63 percent of average household income on
rent.
Recent Los Angeles City College graduate, Andre Medina, reported,
“When I started at LACC a few years ago I moved into a studio across from
campus for about $800 per month. A new tenant I spoke with last week is now
paying $1,200 for a similar unit. Living near campus has become impossibly
expensive.”
The Los Angeles County Housing Authority is responsible for the
disbursement of Section 8 vouchers, the federal government’s housing assistant
program. As of April this year the Housing Authority had a waiting list of 40,000
people, with an average wait of 11 years before receiving a voucher. Because of
the backlog they have stopped accepting new names for the waiting list.
The Trump administration plans to cut $6 billion from the 2018
budget of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which would
include a $974 million reduction in funding for Section 8 vouchers.
According to various studies,
homelessness in Los Angeles County has reached epidemic proportions, with
estimates in the range of 47,000-58,000 homeless on any given night. (See: “Homelessness
sharply increases in Los Angeles County”)
The housing crisis forces residents to make difficult budgetary
choices, and is a significant cause of food insecurity. Fifty-nine percent of
those surveyed reported being unable to afford enough food, 65 percent couldn’t
eat balanced meals, 52 percent skipped meals to save money, 50 percent ate less
than they felt they should, and 42 percent reported being regularly hungry.
According to Rachael Garcia, another recent graduate from LACC,
“When I first moved into LA to be closer to LACC, I moved into a two-bedroom
apartment in Hollywood. I shared a bedroom with my boyfriend for $1,200 a
month. Food was a constant issue. I had to cook for every meal including
bringing my lunch to school, which is a really difficult demand on your time
when you’re juggling school and a full-time job, considering how long it takes
using public transportation in LA. When I didn’t have time to cook, the only
option was getting a taco or something at a fast food restaurant and it’s just
not enough food. You get used to being hungry, really.
“Once I went into the pizzeria by school and my card got declined
because my financial aid was late. The guy behind the counter commented how
often he’s been seeing that happen with students lately. Last semester I didn’t
see a dime of my financial aid until the school year was already over! I was
lucky that my dad was able to help out with some money to get by, but I can’t
imagine what I would have done otherwise, which is the situation many of my
friends are in that don’t have family to help out.”
The recent study of LACCD students is
entirely in line with other recent studies, including a 2016 study from
the University of California that concluded four in 10 UC students cannot
afford to get enough to eat, while a 2015 study from
the California State University system revealed that 21 percent of CSU students
experienced food insecurity.
Despite the growing levels of poverty among college and university
students revealed by these studies, this year school officials moved to raise
tuitions in both UC and CSU university systems. The UC regents approved a 2.5
percent tuition increase, the first increase in six years, while the CSU Board
of Trustees moved to raise tuitions by 5 percent.
Shifting the financial burden of running the school systems onto the
backs of the students has been the deliberate policy of California’s Democratic
Party leadership. In response to the 2008 recession, the state slashed nearly
one third of its support to the CSU system while more than doubling its
tuition, to $5,472, between 2006 and 2011.
The shifting of the burden to the students is reflected even more
drastically in the punishing funding cuts Democratic Governor Jerry Brown has
inflicted on the state’s community colleges. In the years 2007 to 2013, a
combined $1.5 billion was sliced from the budgets of the community college
districts, this despite a near doubling of tuition over the last decade.
AMERICA UNRAVELS:
Millions of children go hungry as the super- rich gorge themselves
and ILLEGALS SUCK IN BILLIONS IN WELFARE!
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"The top 10 percent of Americans now own roughly
three-quarters of all household wealth."
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/america-unravels-millions-of-children.html
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"While
telling workers there is “not enough money” for wage increases, or to fund
social programs, both parties hailed the recent construction of the U.S.S.
Gerald Ford, a massive aircraft carrier that cost $13 billion to build,
stuffing the pockets of numerous contractors and war profiteers."
JAMES
WALSH –
THE OBAMA HISPANICAZATION of
AMERICA
How the Democrat party
surrendered America to Mexico:
“The
watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama
administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices
Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.” Washington
Times
LOS ANGELES: MEXICO'S
ANCHOR BABY BREEDING FACTORY FOR 18 YEARS OF WELFARE. JUMP THE BORDERS, GET
YOUR CHECK IN THE MAIL THE NEXT DAY!
"La Voz de Aztlan
has produced a video in honor of the millions of babies that have been born as
US citizens to Mexican undocumented parents. These babies are destined to
transform America. The nativist CNN reporter Lou Dobbs estimates that there are
over 200,000 (dated) "Anchor Babies" born every year
whereas George Putnam, a radio reporter, says the figure is closer to 300,000 (dated) . La Voz de Aztlan believes that the number is aproximately 500,000 (dated) "Anchor
Babies" born every year."
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In the state of
California, of which Los Angeles is a large part, most payouts to illegals go
first to educate them, and then to jail them after they commit crimes, and then
to pay for their medical care as they clog up emergency rooms and help
themselves to Medi-Cal benefits from funds they never paid into. Welfare
itself rates a distant fourth.
BREEDING
AN OCCUPATION FOR WELFARE:
MEXICO
WILL DOUBLE U.S. POPULATION
The LA RAZA ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS FOR
WELFARE
MEXICO WILL DOUBLE AMERICA’S POPULATION
IMMIGRANT SHARE OF ADULTS QUADRUPLED IN
232 COUNTIES
"La Voz de Aztlan
has produced a video in honor of the millions of babies that have been born as
US citizens to Mexican undocumented parents. These babies are destined to
transform America. The nativist CNN reporter Lou Dobbs estimates that there are
over 200,000 (dated) "Anchor Babies" born every year
whereas George Putnam, a radio reporter, says the figure is closer to 300,000 (dated) . La Voz de Aztlan believes that the number is aproximately 500,000 (dated) "Anchor
Babies" born every year."
CALIFORNIA UNDER MEXICAN
OCCUPATION:
XAVIER BECERRA and the rise of
Mexican fascism in the LA RAZA welfare state that was California
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/la-raza-supremacist-xavier-becerra-and.html
While you were sleeping, Mexico was invading, occupying,
looting and voting Democrat for more.
“In 1960, according to a USC demographic study, fewer than 10%
of the people in the Los Angeles County area were Latino. By 2008, according to
federal census estimates, almost half were Latino. Roughly the same was true in
the city of Los Angeles.”
''California is going to be a
Hispanic state," said Mario Obeldo, former head of MALDEF. "Anyone
who does not like it should leave." And MEChA's goal is even more radical:
an independent ''Aztlan,'' the collective name this organization gives to the
seven states of the U.S. Southwest – Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New
Mexico, Texas and Utah.”
LA RAZA AGENDA: 3 ExamplesRichard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council "They're afraid we're going to take over the governmental institutions and other institutions. They're right. We will take them over. . We are here to stay."
Mario Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic Organizations and California State Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Jerry Brown, also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton "California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave."
Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General We are practicing "La Reconquista" in California."
Here are a few facts you should
consider when you finally look around yourself and see only Mexicans….Mexicans
driving, Mexicans in our jobs, Mexicans in our welfare office, Mexicans
flooding our healthcare systems, and Mexicans and only Mexicans at all
construction sites.
CALIFORNIA UNDER MEXICAN
OCCUPATION:
The State Government of CA hands
illegals more than $30 BILLION per year in social services. That’s the state
level we’re talking about. Counties hand out even more with Mex-occupied Los
Angeles leading at $1 BILLION in welfare for Mexico’s anchor baby breeders. No
legal in Los Angeles or California were ever given the opportunity to vote on
Mexico’s welfare state in our open borders.
California has the largest and most
expensive state prison system in the nation. Half the inmates are illegals from
Mexico.
There have been more than 2,000
Californians murdered by Mexicans that fled back across the border to avoid
prosecution.
According to former CA Attorney
General Kamala Harris, now CA senator and advocate for amnesty, nearly HALF the
murders in CA are by Mexican gangs.
Los Angeles is America’s and
Mexico’s second largest city. Approximately 93% of the murders are committed by
Mexicans.
The Los Angeles Police department
publishes a list with images of the 200 most wanted criminals in Los Angeles.
About 186 at any given time are Mexicans. Most of the rest are Russian and
Armenians.
The County of Los Angeles spends
about $300 million yearly to jail Mexican criminals.
The City of Los Angeles spends
about $10 MILLION per year to clean up Mexican graffiti.
The City of Los Angeles has more
than 100,000 homeless and bout 5 MILLION illegals housed and in jobs.
The tax-free underground economy in
Los Angeles County is estimated to be in excess of $2 BILLION per year.
The City of Los Angeles tetters on
bankruptcy. It will be the largest bankruptcy in American history and will end
all City employee pensions. Still there will be no cuts related to the Mexican
occupation.
California ranks No. 48 out of 50
states for abominable lower education quality.
Mexicans loathe literacy and
speaking the gringo language. Most Mexicans graduate from high school not being
able to read at a third-grade level.
At Santee Public High School in Los
Angeles, classes are taught in Spanish. Books are in Spanish and school
assemblies end in “!Viva Mexico, Viva Mexico!”.
Many public schools in CA have
prohibited Legals from wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo day.
California’s Attorney General
Xavier Becerra has been described in the press as a “Puss spewing racist”.
Mexicans think of themselves as LA RAZA “The Race”. The A.G.’s website no
longer list California’s most wanted criminals as they were all MEXICANS.
Becerra, as Congressman, sucked in bribes from Mexican criminals.
There have been more than 82
private enterprise hospitals and clinics in CA driven into bankruptcy due to
Mexico’s occupation of CA. It’s calculated that Mexico’s “free” gringo-paid
healthcare in CA cost legals $1.5 BILLION per year. No illegal in Mexico
received ANY medical attention, welfare or jobs.
The La Raza Sanctuary City of West
Hollywood, which employs hordes of illegals, banned the use of gas leaf blowers
in 1987. No City ordinances anywhere in CA ever apply to illegals. The City
handed out more than 400 fines to gardeners who were all illegals from Mexico.
The fines were never paid and were deemed uncollectable as these gardeners all
had fraudulent IDs. Therefore they were out there driving unlicensed and
uninsured. No illegal caught using a gas leaf blower and with fraudulent ID was
or will ever be prosecuted. In CA La Raza is above the law.
In Los Angeles there have been
numerous murders of innocent black Americans by Mexican gangs who were
“ethnically cleansing” their hoods.
LA RAZA Gov Jerry Brown has signed
each and every bill put before him that would expand Mexico’s supremacy in CA.
Both houses of the state legislature are now controlled by Mexico.
Gov Jerry Brown has openly
proclaimed that California is the Mexican’s “second home”, but when it comes to
jobs, a tax-free lifestyle, welfare, “free” medical, education and housing for
many, CA is the Mexican’s first home.
Former Mayor of Los Angeles and now
candidate for Governor, Antonio Villaraigosa is a former member of the racist,
violent, fascist separatist movement of M.E.Ch.A.
Mexico has 50 consulates in
American compared with the United Kingdom which has only 8. These consulates
are LA RAZA headquarters to help Mexicans claim their “rights”, which is more
welfare and “free” medical.
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