Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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EVIE ROSEN, 69; WAUSAU, WIS.; retired needlework-shop owner Disheartened by news stories about the homeless, Rosen wanted to do something to help: "Almost every home has little balls of yarn. I thought if we all could knit 7-in. by 9-in. rectangles, we could stitch them together and make a lot of afghans." She started Warm Up America in 1992, getting the word out to churches, retirement homes and craft shops. Last year, with help from other organizations, the group distributed 16,000 afghans...
Will the classy literary ghost and the newly homeless ex-Senator stay together? Will Helprin, who avoided the draft in the Vietnam War (he apologized in a Journal column), hurl shame, through his boss, the wounded old soldier, at Clinton's draft dodging? (Helprin apparently did serve a year in the Israeli armed forces, but explaining this to a Chamber of Commerce audience in Keokuk, Iowa, could be complicated.) Dole's people seem to like the idea of more Helprin speeches. Which could leave the Democrats, searching nervously for something to worry about in this ominously optimistic season, a little...
...clothing revered for its mother-friendly workplace, recently let go 25% of its work force. CEO Gun Denhart had also won kudos for her "Hannadowns" program, in which used Hanna clothing could be returned for a 20% credit toward the next purchase. The used clothing was then donated to homeless children. But rising postal and paper costs took a toll on this company, which last year had chalked up $52 million in sales...
Summer grew up with a single mother who lived on Aid to Families With Dependent Children, the federal welfare program, and was homeless while in the fourth and eighth grades...
Summer and her mother were homeless twice, while she was in the fourth and eighth grade. After attending several elementary schools, she insisted on going to one high school for all four years. "I made my mother stay in one place. I told her not to move," says Summer, who attended Quincy High School in nearby Quincy, Mass...