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Failing dreams: California faces its own Great Depression
Failing dreams: California faces its own Great Depression
It is less than 20 miles from the pristine surfing beaches of the California coast to a scene of Third World deprivation.
California has only 50,000 job openings a year for people with college degrees, yet 150,000 are graduating annually Photo: AFP/GETTY
By Nick Allen, Los Angeles
9:30PM BST 14 Oct 2011
In Skid Row, a grimy pocket of downtown Los Angeles, the prostrate forms of homeless people lie strewn across the pavements.
The lucky ones have tents for shelter but others make do with a sliver of cardboard for a bed and a supermarket trolley to carry their rags.
At the last police count 1,662 people live on these streets, twice as many as a year ago.
And now amid the drug addicts and the drunks there are families who not so long ago had homes and ordinary suburban lives.
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