Word: homelessness
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Many claim that the problem has increased since the end of summer, when budget cuts forced the city to drastically reduce the hours of local drug rehabilitation centers and close down several homeless centers...
...sympathetic to the homeless,” she says, “but I’m not sympathetic to those who yell, use bad language and worse things than that...
...Homeless shelters are being closed down and funding for public service is dropping, so the need for students to enter public service is greater,” she says...
...DIED. NAYA, 25, tree-sitter for Earth First!, an environmental group; after falling 30 meters from a redwood tree the organization was trying to protect from loggers; near Santa Cruz, California. Naya?known to fellow activists only by his "tree name"?was a homeless man who joined the group recently. He spent 12 hours on a platform in the redwood canopy before falling...
...conversation I overheard in Porter Square two weeks ago has made me remember how I felt seeing homeless people in the square as a first-year. It had been the first time I was really exposed to homelessness, and I immediately wanted to help. At the same time, the amount of money I was spending at Harvard left me unable to give to every homeless person I saw. By the end of last year I had reached an agreement with myself that I became convinced would add up to something over time. I would give away all my coins...