Los Angeles mayoral candidates Congresswoman Karen Bass and businessman Rick Caruso will once again square off in another debate.
In the Sept. 21 debate, Bass slammed Caruso's plan to address homelessness by saying it only focuses on getting people indoors but neglecting things like health and mental health services.Caruso, however, said mental health services would come under his plan, but getting people off the street is a necessary first step.
"The cost of providing a service on the street is three times the cost of providing a service when someone is sheltered. We could treat three times the amount of people if we keep them in shelters [than] if you keep them on the street," Caruso said in the Sept. 21 debate. During the Sept. 21 debate, Bass tried to set the record straight on Caruso accusing the Congresswoman of corruption. Prior to that debate, Caruso called out Bass for taking a scholarship from the University of Southern California a decade ago. According to a report from the Los Angeles Times, Bass received a $100,000 scholarship from USC's School of Social Work.
Bass said accepting that scholarship was "not bad judgment at all." She said she applied for that scholarship and earned it by studying hard and getting good grades. "I was offered that scholarship so that I could be a better legislator to take care of the nation's most vulnerable children," Bass said in the Sept. 21 debate. "I didn't apply for an MBA so that I could be a venture capitalist. It's a social work degree that was given to me on merit."All the news you need to know, every day
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