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каждый пятый в Графстве Лос Анджелес получает пособие.

More than two million people living in Los Angeles County -- about 20 percent of the area's population -- receive welfare or other public aid and officials believe more will need help as the recession deepens.

The rising demand due to the nation's sagging economy and a jobless rate that stands at 9.5 percent in Los Angeles County has left public assistance offices ill-equipped to deal with the growing throng of indigent people.

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