Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to live interviews with shelter workers and homeless persons during every half hour of the broadcast, WEEI raised money by auctioning off donated items over the radio, said WEEI 590 Fund Director Jim A. Pansullo...
...political problem with a painfully human face. Unlike the arcane theories of Star Wars or the complex calculations of the budget deficit, homelessness is no abstraction. The homeless confront urban dwellers every day: sleeping on sidewalks and park benches, begging pedestrians for loose change, huddling in doorways for shelter or meandering the streets muttering to themselves. In cities that have flourished during the Reagan years, there are more homeless today than at any time since the Great Depression...
...given night, an estimated 735,000 people in the U.S. are homeless. As many as 2 million may be without shelter for one night or more during the year. A deplorable situation that began with deinstitutionalized mental patients' living in the streets has grown to include the working poor and whole families. Nearly a quarter of the homeless have jobs; more than a third are families with children. "The growing phenomenon of homeless children," says a report from the National Academy of Sciences, "is nothing short of a national disgrace...
...that responding to the concerns of one's constituents, whether it pertain to obtaining "pork barrel" funds for a particular local project, providing shelter for the homeless, or ridding the neighborhood of the drugs that are daily being sold on its street corner, is pandering...
...official program will begin November 15, when the University Lutheran Shelter, which provides 25 to 30 homeless people with hot meals each day, opens...