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...police sweeps" of their streets. In New York City, Mayor Rudy Giuliani vowed to clamp down after a homeless man seriously injured a woman by slamming her head with a brick. Giuliani ordered that all "able-bodied" homeless people must go to work or risk losing their city-provided shelter and possibly their children to foster care. The decree raised an outcry from civil libertarians and clergy as well as his likely rival for a Senate seat, Hillary Clinton, and TV talk-show host Rosie O'Donnell, who blasted Giuliani for being "out of control...
While measuring the size of the homeless population is an imprecise business, most evidence indicates the numbers are swelling. The demand for emergency shelter has grown every year since 1985 and leaped 11% in 1998, according to a study published last year by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. In New York City the number of homeless has grown more than 9% this year. Experts suspect the frothy economy is partly to blame. It has in many cases driven housing rentals beyond the reach of minimum-wage workers...
...York City has adapted a more comprehensive policy of requiring the homeless to go to work in exchange for shelter. A state judge temporarily halted this practice last week in order to consider its legality. Some of the New York provisions are plainly unforgiving: being an hour late to work could mean a loss of benefits for more than 90 days; refusing employment altogether could result in eviction; and evicted parents have been threatened with losing their children to foster care. An outcry over that last threat has put the Giuliani administration on the defensive. "We're not going...
...meantime, homeless advocates hope the hard-line attitudes will start to soften. When a lawyer representing New York City pleaded with a judge for a resolution of the work-for-shelter issue by Dec. 22, Justice Elliott Wilk demurred: "I don't think you really have to implement this for Christmas." The question is whether that holiday spirit will last beyond the New Year...
...Your child will have good ideas about what a kid his age would want; let him choose and wrap a gift to donate. In lieu of a teacher gift, write your teacher an appreciative note and let him know that you have donated a book to a local shelter or Toys for Tots in his honor...