The Greater Los Angeles Area is the suburban area around the city of Los Angeles, California. This informal term is usually synonymous with the term The Southland, a name often used by Los Angeles area news outlets.
The scope of the term has been variously used to include one to five Southern California counties. At its more compact, the term means only Los Angeles County. At its broadest, the term referred to the all of Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, which geographically encompassed large extents of sparsely populated mountain and desert.
Often, when people use either the term The Southland or the Greater Los Angeles Area it is in reference to the conurbation of Los Angeles and Orange Counties, and usually does not include the urban portions of the Inland Empire counties of Riverside and San Bernardino.
Depending upon how one draws the boundaries, the Greater Los Angeles area is home to approximately 14 to 16 million people. It sprawls over 120 miles from Ventura in the west to San Bernardino in the east; and over 100 miles from San Clemente in the south to Lancaster in the north.
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02 :: LosAngeles Schools Recieve 50M Donation - September 26, 2007, 5:58 pm - A 50 million donation -- the largest ever made by individuals to LosAngeles schools -- was announced Wednesday as part of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's campaign to raise money for his plan to control two clusters of schools.
07 :: New Zealand fugitive sought in LosAngeles - September 25, 2007, 4:56 pm - Nai Yin Xue is accused of killing his wife in New Zealand and leaving his daughter in a railroad station before fleeing to the United States.
Since 1990, the LosAngeles area Federal employee locality adjustment has decreased by 1.31 percent compared to the rest of the U.S. FEPCA was designed to bring Federal employee compensation within five percent parity of their non-federal equivalents over a 10 year period.
LosAngeles area Federal managers are accountable for agency accomplishments and this is difficult when they cannot hire the talent needed, in part because FEPCA was not successfully implemented.
LosAngeles' high cost of housing for both owners and renters has made it difficult to attract skilled workers in both the government and private sectors.
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