los angeles times, by gale holland and emily alpert, september 18th 2013 poverty continued creeping upwards in the los angeles area last year, long after the declared end of the recession , new estimates from the u.s. census bureau .show the numbers are another sign of continued suffering after the economic downturn:more than17%of peoplein los angeles, long beach and santa ana metroplitan area lived below the poverty line last year, that number rose year by year since 2007 when roughly 13% lived in poverty. economic hardship is even more common within the city of los angeles , where the share of people living in poverty rose from 18.5% to more than 23% between 2007 and 2012the new figures show,
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