Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...local charities benefited by the weekend's events: Seton Manor, a shelter for homeless people with AIDS, and the Dimmock Community Health Center, which specializes in AIDS education for women, children and minorities said Lincoln...
...warned that the economy was worsening and that the government could no longer ensure public safety. Nine reform groups agreed to each name a Minister Without Portfolio to join Modrow's Cabinet. Former leader Erich Honecker was arrested and then released, being too sick to remain in jail. The homeless ex- President and his wife Margot are staying with the village pastor of Lobetal, near Berlin. Honecker will be tried for treason in March...
...case grew out of attempts by the Metropolitan Transit Authority to crack down on panhandling in New York City subway cars and stations, but the ruling has nationwide implications. Seeking to stem the proliferation of needy and homeless in a system that serves 1 billion passengers a year, the MTA last October launched its so-called Operation Enforcement. Within weeks, two homeless panhandlers -- Papa Joe Walley, 50, and William Young Jr., 40 -- complained to the Legal Action Center for the Homeless that they were being harassed by the police while begging in the subway. The center filed a class action...
...many homeless people are there in America? Who are they? On the night of March 20, the U.S. Census Bureau will try to find out with a nationwide sweep of shelters, public parks, subways and sidewalk heating grates. Enumerators -- the bureaucratic euphemism for headcounters -- have been warned not to search parked cars or Dumpsters and not to enter abandoned buildings; nor may they question people who are sleeping or obviously disoriented...
There is concern that the project will somehow demean the homeless. That's beside the point, reply city officials. The homeless will be among the first , to benefit when their communities use the tally to apply for more federal funds. And a documented increase in population -- homeless or not -- could lead to greater representation in the Congress and in state legislatures...