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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2014
Volume 13 Issue 68
Santa Monica Daily Press
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Paul Alvarez Jr. editor@smdp.com Anthony Anderson and Tom Voss walk down the bridge to the Santa Monica Pier on Saturday. The pair walked to Santa Monica from Milwaukee, Wisc. They made the walk in support of veterans.
Startup connects seniors with caregivers California farmers BY DAVID MARK SIMPSON Daily Press Staff Writer
CITYWIDE Santa Monica — along with the rest of the nation — is trending older and a local startup is using new technology to make aging easier. HomeHero, based in the Downtown office of startup incubator Science Inc., lets
seniors and their loved ones find and manage caregivers all from their mobile devices or computers. Between 2000 and 2010, the number of Santa Monicans over the age of 65 grew by 11 percent and, even more substantial, the number of residents between the ages of 55 and 64 grew 48 percent, according to the U.S. Census.
In the next several years, some of the members of this aging population are going to need home care. Personal care aide is the second fastest growing occupation in the country according to a report last month by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The percent change in employment for personal
KEN SWEET NEW YORK Stock investors were hit from all sides in January. Concerns about the global
economy and U.S. company earnings, as well as turmoil in emerging markets, led the Dow Jones industrial average to its worst start since 2009. However, many investors remain hopeful
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that the problems will not spill over into the rest of 2014. They even see the downturn as healthy, given the U.S. market’s rapid rise last year. The Dow slid 5.3 percent in
January while the Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 3.6 percent and the Nasdaq composite declined 1.7 percent. SEE STOCKS PAGE 8
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MENDOTA, Calif. Amid California’s driest year on record, the nation’s leading agricultural region is locked in drought and bracing for unemployment to soar, sending farm workers to food lines in a place famous for its abundance. One-third of the Central Valley’s jobs are related to farming. Strains on water supplies are expected to force farmers to leave fields unplanted, creating a ripple effect on food
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Stock investors hit from all sides in January AP Markets Writer
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