Word: homelessness
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...playwright of Depression-era, ash-can style dramas. Set in the early 1930s, the book follows the adventures of the 12-year-old Freddie Bloch, a working-class kid forced by circumstances to hit the railroad tracks of America, and enter the world of the destitute and homeless. Using convincing period detail and mixing it with fresh takes on the tropes of Depression-era dramas (breadlines, hobos, strikes, etc.) Kings in Disguise tells a coming-of-age story like none other in the medium...
...Word of the police sends the homeless running...
Until last week, Dereck Shelton was nearly unreachable. Homeless for the past year, Shelton had no phone number to give to friends, family and potential employers. "People in a position to hire make judgments about a person without a phone," he says. "They don't take that person seriously." That may change, thanks to Project C.A.R.E., a new program run by the San Francisco communications start-up GrandCentral. C.A.R.E. is giving Shelton and hundreds of other homeless people free permanent numbers, which go to voicemail boxes. The plan may be thwarted, though, by the Federal Communications Commission, which is considering...
...they can use their knowledge to work for permanent change. Otherwise, service groups will be in danger of producing well-intentioned advocates working in a system without the tools to shape it, and political groups will be in danger of churning out aspiring policymakers who have never met a homeless person...
...years later, the damage that resulted from the great quake seems nearly as shocking as it did then: some 28,000 buildings destroyed, more than 3,000 people killed, at least 225,000 more--roughly half the population of the city of San Francisco at the time--left homeless. But, more shocking still, was the fact that no one, not even scientists, could explain why, without warning, such fury had erupted from the earth below...