UCLA Report on Poverty

After reading your article, as well as from personal observation, it is evident that those who can get ahead in the Los Angeles most likely do so if they practice a profession such as law or medicine. With a few exceptions, everyone else has to really struggle. The high cost of housing is probably the greatest economic problem here.

The UCLA report shows that Latina immigrants are at the bottom of the earning ladder and the photograph of the Guatemalan woman and her children speaks for itself. The number of children this woman has guarantees that neither she nor her husband will ever get out of the poverty cycle.

There are very few people in this world (or this country) who can truly afford to raise six children. It seems that the Third World population cannot understand that it is their high birthrate which is the underlying cause of their perpetual poverty. The rule of thumb for economic success is fewer children and more money.

RICHARD MORIMOTO

Tarzana