THE CITY-In LA county approximately 15 percent of the nearly 11 million residents live in poverty, but COVID has caused that number to rise.
In the developing nation of India where Eric Garcetti has been short-listed for an ambassadorship, hundreds of millions of people among the 1.4 billion Indians are living in poverty.
Though there were only 580,466 people who experienced homelessness on a single night in the United States in 2020 according to HUD, approximately 75,000 of that group are here in LA County. India may have 1.8 million unhoused people.
Speaking plainly, it is hard to see the job in India as a plum assignment when 4,194 Indians died of COVID on May 21, 2021 alone.
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THE CITY-
Judicial Blowback: Federal Judge Carter made a decent point about monitoring the county and the city s activities intended to improve the homelessness situation, but the wind has been blowing against him.
Carter wants the City to provide a detailed breakdown of funding sources, uses, objectives, methods and means so that the court can monitor the historic Binding Commitment and Implementation Plan (the Plan ).
He wants hard numbers with answers about racial disparities in housing and homelessness.
The Board of Supervisors have a lawyer named Skip Miller, who in the interest of judicial economy wants the Supervisors to be left alone to continue the excellent work he feels they are doing, without sharing his legal invoices. The gist of his argument is that the board is fantastic. . .and the fact that people are falling deeper and deeper into an untenable situation, is par for the course.
Delivery & curbside pick-up
Dishes are sold a la carte, with an eight-piece fried chicken bucket priced at $30
It s tastily true to claim that most meals are mostly available most of the time at a restaurant, even as unusual specials and spotlight dishes rotate through the calendar.
But something rarer?
When an eatery does what a lot of people do at home: Serve a specific dish on a specific night of the week, all to make life a touch more celebratory.
If you re a fan of Pizza Friday, or Meatless Monday, you re likely already a devotee of this sort of day-specific foodie-ism.