Homeless Issues

Kim Doyle Wille: School's Almost out, and 18 million Children Won't Know Where Their Next Meal Comes From

My first blog for Huffington Post re: child hunger rises and children go without meals in America, once school lets out for the summer and there's no access to school lunches or breakfasts. I also focus on some ideas for solutions and collaborations that could be formed now, in a …

ILO report: Worldwide unemployment over 200 million

The International Labor Organization, in its annual report on global labor conditions issued Monday, forecast that more than 200 million workers will be unemployed in 2012. The United Nations agency estimated that 50 million jobs had been wiped out since the 2008 financial c …

Evicted From Park, Occupy Protesters Take to the Sidewalks

The protesters arrived in the Wall Street neighborhood on Wednesday night carrying bedrolls, quilts and blankets. They spread pieces of cardboard on the sidewalk on Nassau Street. As a handful of police officers stood nearby, the protesters made signs with anticorporate slo …

Donations flow in to homeless shelter after Catholic Church cuts off support

The first of hundreds of online donations to Francis House came in early Thursday, just after midnight, as news broke that the Catholic Church was cutting off funding to the homeless services agency because of its new director's support of Planned Parenthood and gay marriage.  …

Catholic Diocese halts funding homeless agency because of new director's personal views on abortion and gay marriage

SACRAMENTO, Calif -- The Catholic Diocese of Sacramento no longer will fund programs at Francis House, a nonprofit agency that serves homeless people, because of its new director's views supporting abortion rights and gay marriage. In a letter last month, the diocese's directo …

Proposal for Ellen DeGeneres: Great Ideas That Work - YouTube

My video proposal to The Ellen DeGeneres Show re: me shining a light/lens on solutions for suffering Americans by becoming her 'Ambassador of Great Ideas That Work', (and a few other ideas!).

Children Living in High-Poverty Communities Surged 25 Percent Over Last Decade, Report Finds | PND | Foundation Center

The number of impoverished children I'm seeing during my tours of food pantries, homeless shelters, schools, etc., is heart-breaking and shocking.

Shaun King: Do It Alone, Person to Person

Excellent post in HuffPo re: solutions to our collective problems, all begin with each of us. An excellent (successful) KickStarter campaign of hope, working person to person.

Lelia Boroughs Donates Home to Homeless

Lelia Boroughs, 84, wasn’t known to many.

Being Poor

Being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs. Being poor is having to keep buying $800 cars because they’re what you can afford, and then having the cars break down on you, because there’s not an $800 car in America that’s worth a damn. Being poor …

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