{"id":125490,"date":"2026-01-08T18:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/125490\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T18:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:49:10","slug":"fresno-looks-to-shed-poverty-label-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/125490\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Looks To Shed Poverty Label"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paulos\u2019 economic situation is playing out amid signs that Fresno\u2019s economy is improving, after decades of its own economic instability. Fresno has long struggled with deep-rooted poverty. In 2005, a report by the nonprofit think-tank Brookings Institution broke this out in the open, revealing that\u00a0Fresno had the highest concentration of poverty<\/a> of any U.S. city. The study showed that a significant number of\u00a0Fresno\u2019s census tracts<\/a>\u00a0had at least 40 percent of residents living at or below the poverty line. Those findings left city officials with a big task ahead to improve conditions.<\/p>\n

The non-profit Central Valley Community Foundation<\/a> aims to create jobs and economic opportunities in the Fresno region.\u00a0The organization has been the leading group helping to develop projects in recent years to boost the regional economy. It has sought to respond to evolving technological changes that could impact the workforce.\u00a0It oversees initiatives<\/a> around the food and farming industry, and seeks to build a private donor base to sustain future economic projects.<\/p>\n

A recent report by the community foundation showed that some of that work \u2013 along with other potential factors in the wider economy \u2013 could be making a difference.\u00a0The organization found that the rate of concentrated poverty in Fresno\u00a0has dropped by 68%<\/a>\u00a0since 2014.<\/p>\n

A high-profile defense attorney for Nick Reiner, who is accused of killing his famous parents in their Brentwood home, has stepped down from the case and arraignment has been pushed to next month.<\/p>\n

Reiner, 32, was expected to be arraigned Wednesday morning in Los Angeles County Superior Court in connection with the deaths of his parents, Hollywood legend Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, last month.\u00a0Instead, Nick Reiner\u2019s lawyer, Alan Jackson, revealed to Judge Theresa McGonigle that he was withdrawing from the case.\u00a0\u201cCircumstances beyond our control, but more importantly, circumstances beyond Nick\u2019s control have dictated that sadly it\u2019s made it impossible for us to continue our representation of Nick,\u201d Jackson told reporters after Reiner\u2019s brief court appearance.<\/p>\n

The attorney said he is \u201clegally and ethically\u201d prohibited from explaining why he would no longer represent Reiner.\u00a0\u201cWe know the legal process will reveal the true facts of the circumstances surrounding this case,\u201d Jackson continued. \u201cWe\u2019ve investigated this matter top to bottom and front to back.\u201c<\/p>\n

Rob Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 68, were found dead Dec. 14 after police were called to their home on South Chadbourne Avenue.\u00a0Detectives with the Police Department\u2019s elite Robbery Homicide Division, Homicide Special Section began an investigation and identified Reiner as the suspect, according to police.\u00a0The younger Reiner was located and arrested near Exposition Park close to USC at approximately 9:15 p.m., according to police. He remains in jail on a no-bail status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paulos\u2019 economic situation is playing out amid signs that Fresno\u2019s economy is improving, after decades of its own…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-125490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}