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Midnight Movie: Patton Oswalt's 'Christmas Shoes'
shredding moms Yesterday moms in Laguna Niguel skated a bowl in a mothers' day fundraiser. "Kids are proud to have a nonconforming parent," the LA Times writes, which puts a nail in the skating-as-rebellion coffin for us. Wait, we hear more banging — it's 35-year-old mother Jenny Sparks, who tells the paper: "Skateboarding is the new Jenny Craig."
immigration numbers An AP report in the Daily Breeze says that it's going to be hard for Washington to come up with immigration legislation since no one can agree on the numbers. As in, do undocumented immigrants cost the US in social benefits, or do they contribute taxes and social security dollars to the economy?
LA is #1 Speaking of contributing to the economy, LA is the #1 city in the nation to spend your counterfeit bills. More than $6 million in phony money was passed in the LA area in 2005, and $2 million was seized before it made it to the street.
theirs is real The LA Business Journal is out with its (guesstimated) richest Angelenos list. To spare you registration, LA Observed takes a peek at a few. Including Kirk Kerkorian, who may be rich but he sure ain't pretty. Don't click and say we didn't warn you.
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Undocumented immigrants are already ineligible for most social programs, except for public education, emergency health care, and nutrition assistance for poor women and children.
Undocumented immigrant workers pay taxes but rarely receive refunds because many are afraid to file. According to an IRS estimate, undocumented immigrants pay more than $300 million in federal taxes alone each year.
According to census data, the percentage of immigrants who receive welfare is lower than the percentage of U.S.-born citizens who do.
Most studies have shown that immigrants pay at least $28 million more in taxes than they receive in services. Over their lifetimes, an average immigrant and his or her children are estimated to pay about $80,000 more in taxes than they receive in services.
Only 3% of arriving immigrants are over age 65, compared to 12% of the overall U.S. population, so immigrant workers make a disproportional net contribution to Social Security and Medicare.