Southern California social service providers are seeing the effects of the country’s economic turbulence. KPCC’s Frank Stoltze was there when they gathered at a town hall in South Los Angeles to discuss what they’re calling the crisis on Main Street.
Frank Stoltze: A medical clinic serves as an island of healing at the corner of 58th and Hoover streets in South L.A. Dr. Rishi Manchanda says that lately, he’s seeing a new kind of patient.
Rishi Manchanda: I can’t tell you how many times in the past several weeks that I’ve been in a room with a patient who’s come in for a cough and a cold and ended up having to console a patient who started crying.