Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part of a nationwide program to help the homeless, the Harvard Cooperative Society has combined an advertising promotion with a gesture to the community...
Through next Saturday, The Coop will offer customers who bring in old coats substantial discounts on new London Fog jackets. In return, The Coop will deliver the old jackets to the Pine Street Inn, a Boston shelter that serves more than 1000 homeless each...
...report issued by the Public Citizen Health Research Group and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI). "Not since the 1820s have so many mentally ill individuals lived untreated in public shelters, on the streets and in jails." Up to 30% of the estimated 500,000 homeless in the U.S. suffer from serious mental disorders, mostly schizophrenia and manic depression, as do 10% of the 1 million people behind bars. With 3,600 psychotic inmates, the Los Angeles County jail is "the largest de facto mental institution in the nation," says the report. Countless other distressed people inhabit squalid...
...remembers William Montague, 36, who has been diagnosed as paranoid and schizophrenic. "I started getting my life together through living and working in the community and making decisions on my own, good and bad." Today Montague has his life together enough to work in a program that helps the homeless in Burlington...
...label. Until that time, they will continue to play at honky-tonks (their next engagement at T.T's is December 6) and even at the alumni's old college. The band, which played at a Mather House dance last year, will perform this winter in a benefit for the homeless at Memorial Hall...