Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead, communities have hired a lot of police, and today cops are the primary care givers for most of the unemployed mentally ill. That's because 200,000 of them are homeless, according to the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, an advocacy group. Another 200,000 are incarcerated, usually as a result of petty crimes. Fewer than 70,000, on the other hand, live in state mental hospitals. And according to a study by Maryland researchers, less than 10% of Americans with schizophrenia are treated in the smaller community programs envisioned by Kennedy-era reformers...
Both Benfield and Purohit will go to New York. Benfield will work with formerly homeless children to develop new mentoring and after-school programs at local schools...
HUPD received a call at 9:29 p.m. from Adams House reporting that a homeless person was in the Adams House lobby eating and being a general nuisance. An HUPD unit was dispatched and the person was removed...
...some reason, the articles since Nixon's presidency just don't seem quite as funny--maybe it's harder to laugh at something that happened in your own time. Then again, with articles such as "Homeless Catch on to 'Grunge' Trend" (describing a man without a job: "'Right now, I'm on disability,' he says, echoing the anti-mainstream, 'no sellout' ethos of bands like Pearl Jam and Nirvana") and "New President Feels Nation's Pain, Breasts," maybe...
...grudging support for those in need of public assistance in favor of empty hands that push such people into hidden corners and crevices. They don't meet the "standard" and they are in the way of our own individual pursuits of happiness. We ask, "Can you please make that homeless man move from the park bench? He's aesthetically displeasing...