Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best, [the council] may lose $4000 and the homeless will get a measly $3000," said Beys, council treasurer...
...Soul, a rap and hip-hop group, is the main act in the annual Rock for Shelter concert to benefit the homeless...
...recipients of the vouchers cannot use them to buy alcohol and tobacco, "or anything else self-destructive," said Leland S. Johnson, a homeless outreach clinician affiliated with the Berkeley Cares Program...
...program has brought a lot of people in to participate who may not have helped the homeless before," Kemp said...
...contribute whether they wish to or not. "If you're so concerned about Problem X," liberals are often taunted, "there is nothing to stop you from writing a check." A single check, though, won't solve the problem. Many people who don't give a quarter to a homeless person because it seems futile would happily give a lot more than that to live again (as we did barely a decade ago) in a society where the sight of a blanket-wrapped beggar is shocking. In a democracy, "government coercion" is a crude misrepresentation of the process by which citizens...