THE CITY-In LA county approximately 15 percent of the nearly 11 million residents live in poverty, but COVID has caused that number to rise. In the developing nation of India where Eric Garcetti has been short-listed for an ambassadorship, hundreds of millions of people among the 1.4 billion Indians are living in poverty. Though there were only 580,466 people who experienced homelessness on a single night in the United States in 2020 according to HUD, approximately 75,000 of that group are here in LA County. India may have 1.8 million unhoused people. Speaking plainly, it is hard to see the job in India as a plum assignment when 4,194 Indians died of COVID on May 21, 2021 alone.