Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many are involved in tutoring and mentoring programs, fundraisers, recycling programs, aid to the homeless and other community service activities...
...described driving around with one homeless gang member named Faro...
...implies ideological, and my comedy is not ideological" -- Leno is a liberal in two senses: with a small l in that his sensibility is humane and broad-minded (last month he went to Chicago and Detroit at his own expense to do free shows for the unemployed and the homeless); with a capital L in that he doesn't really cotton to conservative Republicans ("I mean, these kids are 26, they're Republicans, and they own a Lincoln Town Car. Not even a Fiat...
...There are a lot of homeless children in South Central. Their parents are on drugs, and they discard them. Or they have no homes, and the children drift away. I have seen eight-year-old girls alone by the roadside holding up signs reading I WILL WORK FOR FOOD. What do you think is going to happen to them? All the time, homeless children turn up in gang neighborhoods knocking on doors, saying, "I want to claim. I want to be from this 'hood." And the gangs let them...
...same gang members who will torture an enemy to death simply for being caught alone will take in homeless children...