Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Eventually the demonstration began. I watched it for awhile from one of the upstairs levels, with a man who was looking tired and scruffy, and had lots of clothes with him. Many homeless people come into the seat of Government--not because they are lobbying or otherwise powerfully participating in our Free and Democratic society--but because it is one of the few warm places around State Street where you can go for free...
...some stubborn streak makes me keep holding on. Man I owe thousands of pounds, about sixteen thousand in all. How the hell do I get out of this mess tell me, please do, and yet I still nurture a dream to make this place into somewhere the jobless and homeless wandering about the place could come and get back on their feet. There is some big plan John which, whether I want to or not, will move me in the direction that Power greater than myself wants me to go. I will enclose some information for your perusal, ie Granary...
...rest rooms are not uncommon. In Washington's Mount Pleasant library last spring, a woman was found in a drug-induced stupor with a needle hanging out of her arm. The city's Martin Luther King facility trains cameras on its bathroom areas to discourage child molesters. The homeless, who nap at study tables and bathe in library rest rooms, are a growing constituency. To make space for regular users, the Tulsa public library in 1985 helped set up a day shelter, complete with showers and phone service...
...Tiernan, a Radcliffe visitor-in-residence who is working on a project about homeless shelters, says women could be doing more work in "the whole area of social ethics." Although women are often left out of public policy planning, they often end up being victims of bad policies, she says...
...comfortable members of the Pretty-Good Society, to justify our choice to the wretched hundredth, or to ignore the connection between our wealth and that individual's poverty. Again, the real-world intuition behind Rawls' logic should be clear. When was the last time you looked a homeless person...