INLAND EMPIRE – (INT) – Sixty-thousand households in Riverside and San Bernardino counties are getting some form of public assistance or about 4.7 percent. That’s according to the latest figures issued Tuesday by the Census Bureau.

Among the nation’s twenty-five largest metropolitan areas, the Census Bureau found the number of Inland Empire’s poor households getting assistance in 2012 was higher than San Francisco and Seattle and nearly as high as Detroit.

However, about 2,000 fewer local households were getting help than in 2011.

Story Date: September 7, 2014