Word: homelessness
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...estimates of the number of homeless people in America vary widely. That may be because some surveys consider people who have no home for a night to fall into the category, while others only consider those who live in a chronic state of being without their own shelter. The disparities of measurement yield numbers that are as low at 800,000 and as high as three million...
...Most people who have no income will not live in shelters or on the streets. They will move in with friends or relatives. They will only be homeless to the extent that they no long have a place of their own to live and cannot afford one. It is a form of displacement that has not been seen in America since The Depression and one which replaces the government's assistance for the individual back with the social network of the community, whether that is the community of the family or some other close knit network...
Italy's worst earthquake in nearly three decades struck early Monday in the central region of Abruzzo, killing at least 207 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless. As the death toll from the predawn quake rose throughout the day, the tragedy took a bitter twist as it emerged that a local seismologist had predicted a major tremor...
...suffered from terrible postpartum depression. What was that like? It was this constant state of panic, of me thinking that the world was going to end and I was going to die homeless and naked on the street. I suffer from depression, but this was different. What I'd experienced before was sort of a low humming that's always there but manageable. Postpartum depression was an all-out panic. You're suddenly responsible for another human being. Normally you'd cope by sleeping, but you cant do that. (Read TIME's 1992 article about drug therapy for depression...
...layoffs are likely to have detrimental effects: given the current economic state, it will be much more difficult for laid-off workers to find new jobs, and those who will be unemployed as a result of the layoffs may further burden the city’s homeless shelters and food-assistance programs. Since Harvard has a stake in the community, it should be mindful of these effects when it decides on what budget cuts to make. But Harvard is still one of the largest employers in the state, and, even in spite of necessary layoffs, it will continue to provide...