A Tale of Two Numbers

12/17/2010
A Tale of Two Numbers
California's Children

With a spotlight on child welfare in Los Angeles, the public has recently become aware that the salary for the director of the county Department of Children and Family Services, the county welfare department, is $260,000 a year, or $21,666 a month. (There is the likelihood that this salary will increase with the appointment of a director, Antonia Jimenez, from a private-sector financial consulting background; the recently reassigned director, Trish Ploehn, who holds a master's degree in social work from Cal State Long Beach, will be retaining the $260K salary in her new position.)

The federal poverty level (2009) for a family of four, unadjusted for a higher cost of living in California than in most other states, is: $21,756 a year.

....So. $21,666 a month for the director; $21,756 a year for the clients.  FULL STORY

I think we now know why the French people used the guillotine