Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York City has been called a cesspool before, but a lawsuit filed last week literally accused the city of turning into a sewer. The Legal Action Center for the Homeless charged that authorities have created a health risk -- and caused untold suffering and humiliation to the city's 90,000 homeless -- by failing to provide enough clean and safe public toilets. The center found that most of the park and subway rest rooms it surveyed were either closed or in disrepair...
...four times as fast as the overall crime rate. One in five adult women has been raped, one in six by someone she knows. Between 3 million and 4 million women are beaten each year, 1 million so severely that they seek medical help. More than half of all homeless women are fleeing domestic violence. Think about that the next time a bag lady asks you for a quarter...
Perhaps some people would prefer us to be homeless, unemployed and uninsured, and, indeed, others do prefer us dead. Is this our "kinder, gentler nation...
According to witnesses, the woman, Margaret Marshall, had been sitting with several other homeless people on the corner of Church St. and Mass. Ave. when two men approached the group. One of the men started a fight by throwing a can at her, witnesses said...
...homeless woman was rushed to the hospital Friday night after an unidentified man hit her over the head with a bottle, according to Cambridge police reports...