Word: homelessness
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...million, but he knows the children in those homes won't be coming to his school, where 96 percent of the students are black, and more than 70 percent qualify for reduced or free lunch programs. According to Anderson, some of the students live in homeless shelters, and about half are raised in the projects, mostly by single parents...
...shelter will focus on nutrition in the coming months, aiming to combat growing obesity among the homeless...
This year will also mark the beginning of a street outreach program, in which students will venture into Cambridge to provide services to the homeless...
...millions of us demand it and finally force our government to do its job." The article went on to direct readers to a host of advocacy groups pushing various liberal agendas, including Iraq Veterans Against the War, Friends of the Earth, the ACLU and National Coalition for the Homeless...
...Richter scale, it severed electrical and gas lines, caused part of the Bay Bridge to fall off and collapsed a 1-mile stretch of an elevated Oakland freeway, trapping cars between layers of asphalt and concrete. Thirty-seven thousand people were injured and 1,000 people were left homeless, but only 63 deaths were directly attributed to the earthquake...