{"id":295040,"date":"2010-02-08T17:29:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T22:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8773270970b"},"modified":"2010-02-08T17:29:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T22:29:39","slug":"l-a-s-anti-poverty-resource-centers-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/295040","title":{"rendered":"L.A.&#8217;s anti-poverty resource centers now open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced Monday that all 21 resource centers in the city\u2019s anti-poverty program are now open, offering a one-stop location for government assistance in connection with\u00a0housing, nutrition, health insurance, tax information and other needs.<\/p>\n<p>The locations offer a single application for many of the federal, state, county and city assistance programs and are located in neighborhoods hardest hit by the recession.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 21 <a href=\"http:\/\/cdd.lacity.org\/fam_fsc.html\">FamilySource Centers<\/a> in L.A., 16 are being run by community organizations and five by the city.<\/p>\n<p>The program is being funded through an $18-million federal community development grant and federal stimulus money. As of December, Los Angeles had an unemployment rate of 13.2%, a slight dip from the month before but still higher than rates in\u00a0the county, which is at 12%, and statewide at 12.1%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Phil Willon at L.A. City Hall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced Monday that all 21 resource centers in the city\u2019s anti-poverty program are now open, offering a one-stop location for government assistance in connection with\u00a0housing, nutrition, health insurance, tax information and other needs. The locations offer a single application for many of the federal, state, county and city assistance programs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}