Tag: homelessness
Why are there 40 million people in the US living below
If change can be achieved, it should be a combination of substantial taxes on those with wealth, and programs that offer essential elements of a good life to all in the society.
Helping the homeless: Australian charity turns empty parking lots into safe...
"By providing a safe, secure and comfortable place to get a good night’s rest, we help restore health, dignity and respect for our guests."
Texas nonprofit aims to solve two problems: Homelessness and environmental cleanup
To date, the program has paid out over $100,000 in earned income and helped 24 individuals experiencing homelessness secure stable housing.
Compassion versus greed
Why do we permit investors to latch on to apartments and neither live in them nor put them up for rent?
Pushed out, attacked & criminalized: San Francisco’s unhoused people speak out...
While advocates push for more affordable housing solutions, instead city governments have been cracking down on unhoused people with increasingly punitive measures that criminalize homelessness.
Homelessness soars in our biggest cities, driven by rising inequality since...
Homelessness is becoming more dispersed across major cities in Australia.
Britain’s homeless crisis
This ideologically rooted approach to life is at the heart of many if not all of our problems.
This California city just arrested people for trying to feed the...
Fines and jail terms cannot solve homelessness.
6 causes you should care about right now
The following are examples of some of the most worthwhile causes out there.
It’s more than a church parking lot. It’s a safe zone...
Some say safe-parking programs aren’t a solution to homelessness. But these women and families are grateful this church has one.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.