Emma (she wouldn’t give her last name) peers out from underneath a blanket as she tries to keep warm along Los Angeles Street at 8th Street in Skid Row late Thursday in Los Angeles December 20, 2006. For a story on how the homeless suffer during the cold weather. She’s originally from Kansas City and she says she been in L.A. about three years.

The hand of Violet Wightman, 97-yrs.-old, is cradled in the hand of classmate Richard Sandner as he reads her writings out loud during class at Fullerton College in Fullerton.

A model struts her stuff during the Michelle Mason fashion show in the 2nd Street Tunnel, Saturday evening in downtown L.A.

Her face tells the story as welfare recipient Bette Hendricks loads up the back of her car after a visit to the Food Bank in rural Earlimart, in central California.

Fernando Muro of Anaheim stops for a churro before the Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration is observed at the at Plaza De La Raza next to Olvera Street in Los Angeles Thursday November 01, 2007.

With not much time between her two jobs, Kelly Young and her daughter, Chantel, 10, share a tender moment outside their home in Hayfork, Ca. before Young must go to her second job, a graveyard shift taking care of an elderly client for $25 a night. Hayfork is one of California’s poorest counties.

It’s bright lights in the big city as a model struts her stuff during a runway fashion show at the Farmers and Merchants Bank Building in downtown Los Angeles.

With her father’s arms wrapped around her, 10-year-old Revolution Carr (Yes, that’s her name) is wide-eyed as she listens during a Day of Appreciation service at the KRST Unity Center of African Spirituality, Sunday afternoon in Los Angeles. Her dad’s name is Dedon Kamathi Car. On Oct. 1, someone set center on fire. It was qickly put out, but now some in the South Central community the church serves are saying that the arson was an attempt to silence its minister, who is an outspoken critic of the police department.

After a night of t.v. and reading in her car, and before turning in for the night, Lee Sevilla shares a tender hug with her dog Sandy in the parking lot at a Rite Aid store, late Friday night in El Segundo, May 05, 2006. The 71-year old homeless woman has lived in her car with Sandy for 8 years. *Note – they do not sleep in the store parking lot.

Looking through the window at the refueling pad of a KC-135 Stratotanker, an F-15 fighter jet peels off after fueling near the skies over Salt Lake City, Utah.