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L.A. City Council votes to create new families, youth department [dailynews.com]

 

By City News Service, Los Angeles Daily News, December 10, 2020

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday, Dec. 9, to create a new department to assist families who were already vulnerable to economic uncertainty before the COVID-19 pandemic and are far more so now.

Council President Nury Martinez and Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez proposed establishing the Department for Families, Children and Community Investment in October.

“COVID-19 has demonstrated that in the face of a crisis, problems that our families face arise not independently but are compounded by ones that already existed, especially for our low-income families,” Martinez said. “Our working-poor families need a focused commitment from the city of Los Angeles in order to help them recover and allow their children to reach their full potential.”

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