Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before the election, I heard a message on my answering machine that deeply disturbed me. A woman on the other end of the line identified herself as a member of the Homeless Committee of Phillips Brooks House and was calling for one of my roommates who is registered to vote in Cambridge. As a registered Cambridge voter myself, I listened to hear what...
...Homeless Committee making these telephone calls? For starters, no reason was given on why the committee (and therefore Phillips Brooks House) is supporting these stances. What good can come from edicts on how to vote if no facts are used to support them...
...what rationale can the Homeless Committee have for making these endorsements? Neither Kerry nor Rappaport has been on the forefront of furthering the causes of homeless people. Also, cuts are going to be made in the state government with or without the passage of CLT, which will probably hurt programs helping the homeless. I find no foundations for the endorsements except for the committee members to try and inflict their political opinions upon others...
...challenge is scary: to educate tens of thousands of kids at risk from poverty or neglect while trying to deal with the impact of crack, AIDS, homelessness and middle-class flight to the suburbs. Superintendents must dance with school boards consumed by racial politics, serve on a dozen community boards and learn how to handle the press. In addition to her other duties, Philadelphia superintendent Constance Clayton distributes books to the city's homeless shelters, where 2,500 of her students sleep on any given night. "If I weren't divorced when I took the job," says Floretta McKenzie, former...
...Whenever I talk about these things that the federal government could do, people say, `that costs money.' It does," Royer said. But he said the cost of housing the homeless in jails or shelters is even greater...