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homeless population“I have one patient I recently adjusted at the soup kitchen who lived in a cardboard box for six years,...I’ve never seen a spin1
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Posted on July 23, 2008 - 7:11am at Stone Soup Station
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How awesome is it that a Chiropractor forgoes her fee to provide greatly needed services to the Homeless population of New York City? "...under the free-market system, those homes are more likely to be destroyed than provided to the homeless."1
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Posted on July 23, 2008 - 6:52am at Stone Soup Station
Find more posts like this: As readers of this blog know, a couple of months ago the Nashville Homeless Power Project spent significant energy and dollars in taking over some abandoned HUD properties in foreclosure. "In an effort to relocate homeless from a developing area of uptown, police launched a crackdown on misdemeanors at a popular ga1
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Posted on July 21, 2008 - 7:24am at Stone Soup Station
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Charlotte tries Homeless control and removal by starvation..... "If you were homeless, would you want to stand up and be counted?"0
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Posted on July 21, 2008 - 6:00am at Stone Soup Station
Find more posts like this: I didn't want to be counted, I definitely didn't want to be tracked (by HMIS or any other "tracking" software), and I didn't really want anyone to even know.... By the way, if Tucson's count shows 1100, it's probably closer to 5,000, given what I know about the way counts are typically taken.... "The number of homeless families in Vermont increased by 20 percent over the last seven years, from 429 families in 2000 to 5161
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Posted on July 18, 2008 - 6:00am at Stone Soup Station
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Vermont sees a disturbing trend in Homeless families..... Homelessness on the rise among Vt. families | Addison County Independent Homelessness on the rise among Vt. "...city will be paying the homeless to do various jobs for the city, and in addition to paying them a small amount, will offer3
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Posted on July 6, 2008 - 3:10pm at Stone Soup Station
Find more posts like this: Daytona might be on to something here but the plan loses considerable steam when you discover that it ends after six weeks. America's Future President and America's Future5
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Posted on June 27, 2008 - 12:21pm at AIMLESSLY UNBALANCED
Find more posts like this: I'm getting questions about my post , concerning Ebay. They do not understand how things are , or the way they are , over there. "Individual welfare payments remain at $221 a month or $2,652 a year - far below the poverty line of $10,400."6
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Posted on June 26, 2008 - 8:42am at Stone Soup Station
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Sorta puts the kibosh on the old - and fallacious - idea that folks on welfare are living "high on the hog." Los Angeles Still Homeless Capital of United States "...tent city for homeless people near downtown will be dismantled in September to make way for a parking lot at the homeless se5
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Posted on June 25, 2008 - 6:41am at Stone Soup Station
Find more posts like this: Reno struggles with a burgeoning homeless population - just like the rest of us.... Jun. 25, 2008 Homeless kids at greater risk of falling behind in school, suffering higher rate of physical & mental illnesses -- & becoming ho6
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Posted on June 16, 2008 - 7:05am at Stone Soup Station
Find more posts like this: For all the lip service paid to "protecting the children," and "no child left behind," we don't spend much time, effort or money on or about kids who are homeless. I realize they are typically difficult to find but that should never serve as the excuse as to why we aren't able to provide more and better resources to assist them.  |
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