Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University found nearly half mentioned abusive relationships as a factor in their need for welfare. Arlene McAtee, associate director of Mid-Iowa Community Action, estimates three-quarters of the women she sees come to welfare as a way out of domestic violence. And in some surveys of women in homeless shelters, half the respondents say they're homeless because they fled from a violent mate...
...G.O.P. answer is to make block grants to the states. This will make spending cuts much easier by deflecting blame for the impact of such reductions from the Republican-controlled Congress to the states themselves. State officials will be forced to slash many programs affecting children, the elderly and homeless. And those same officials will receive the blame for the resulting suffering or the tax increases needed to replace federal subsidies. The block grants will decimate state coffers while the Republican Congress congratulates itself on a leaner government...
...founding members said they hope the group'sactivities will later include visits to sheltersfor battered women and the homeless and to primarycare units. They also said they would like toanalyze the state of community health care...
Wheelock College. Towne Art Gallery, 180 The Riverway, Boston. 734-5200. "Streets are for Nobody," photographs and interviews of homeless women in Boston and other communities by Melissa Shook...
...advance. Powell also gives speeches for up to $60,000 each to corporate groups and universities. But many speeches are for free: to kids in inner-city schools, to inmates at a prison in Lorton, Virginia, to a veterans' hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. Powell quietly helps out at a homeless shelter in Washington, organizing a clothing drive and delivering mattresses on the roof of his station wagon...