poverty

So the social worker at the high school I work at headed up an initiative to get students free eyeglasses. They came in last week and some of the responses surprised me. "Oh, so this is what it feels like to see clearly". "Wow, this is amazing!!" Like it reminded of the videos you see of...

https://www.deseret.com/2023/10/26/23933221/food-insecurity-rose-sharply-u-s-households-2022-usda-report Couple takeaways. Black households are disproportionately affected because: a) More likely to be single parent (usually mother) homes b) More likely to live in the South, which is also...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/17/realestate/car-homeless-rent-debt-mortgage.html

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/a-b-c-study-gave-50-homeless-people-7-500-each-here-s-what-they-spent-it-on-1.6540030 A B.C. study gave 50 homeless people $7,500 each. Here's what they spent it on. Lisa Steacy CTVNewsVancouver.ca Reporter Updated Aug. 30, 2023 10:54 p.m. EDT Published Aug. 29, 2023...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/baby-boomers-homelessness/ BY JONATHAN VIGLIOTTI JULY 28, 2022 / 7:44 PM / CBS NEWS San Diego, California — Maria Negrete, her daughter and her granddaughter live in their car in San Diego after they lost their jobs and got evicted from their apartment. "It's...

Chicago and Los Angeles will launch universal basic income pilot programs, with applications opening tomorrow. Los Angeles will pay $1000 to 3200 families every month, while Chicago will send $500 to 5000 families. The programs will cost $40 million and $31.5 million, respectively, according...

OG title: The way Trump talked in this State Of The Union, y'all don't even need reparations He claims African American poverty has never been lower. This is an interesting tweet

Google Maps Damn we bless to say we don't live in a environment like this... Scroll a little up north to your left is the military just posting up.

shyt is surreal walking downtown where I now work. You'd think there no black people with decent jobs and housing in this city. Homeless black people EVERYWHERE. Like 50% of the homeless. Easily. They got nikkas outcheah literally tap dancing and shining shoes for dollars. Nikkas on every...

The NY Times published an interactive map this morning of predicted household wages as an adult based on geographic location. Detailed New National Maps Show How Neighborhoods Shape Children for Life One of the most interesting features of the map is that you can filter by ethnicity...

because of their ignorance to the people whom are really the problem (GREEDY OLD RICH WHITE MEN). However, they don't want to unite some may, but the majority on that don't. They just use that shyt as a cover. I've come to the realization that the American dream aint meant for Blacks...

With 87m poor citizens, Nigeria overtakes India as world’s poverty capital With 87m poor citizens, Nigeria overtakes India as world’s poverty capital niola Akinkuotu, Abuja Nigeria has emerged as the country with the highest number of poor people in the world, overtaking India. According to...

Treated Like Trash — ProPublica :mjcry: This story was co-published with Voice of America. The body of the young man lay in the middle of Jerome Avenue beneath the elevated train tracks, the scene lit by the neon blue sign above the shuttered El Caribe restaurant. A garbage truck sat mid-turn...

As the West Coast’s economy booms and more people move to the area, the number of homeless people has spiked to crisis levels. The Associated Press found that the number of homeless people is now 168,000 in California, Oregon and Washington. By GILLIAN FLACCUS and GEOFF MULVIHILL SEATTLE (AP)...

After so many strikes, cities declare properties nuisances and assess fines unless the problem is remedied. In many cases, this means evicting the tenant responsible for the 911 calls. BY GINGER CHRIST, THE PLAIN DEALER, CLEVELAND / NOVEMBER 10, 2017 (TNS) - A bleeding Euclid woman ran to her...

A 1939 red-lined map of L.A. from the HOLC, a government agency created after the Great Depression. Maps like these were used to deny home financing to non-whites. Jacob Woocher, Grad student in Urban Planning at UCLA, DSA-LA Housing and Homelessness Committee, @jacobwooch on twitter L.A.’s...

Journii Perkins yawns as her grandmother Cheryl Givens-Perkins brushes sister Camille's hair as they get ready for church. By ANN M. SIMMONS Three weeks after Cassaundra Lynn Perkins gave birth to premature twins, she returned to the hospital, feeling unwell. She phoned her mother from her...

Why Chicago area residents pay millions for water that never reaches their taps By Patrick M. O'Connell, Cecilia Reyes, Ted Gregory and Angela Caputo PUBLISHED: OCT. 25, 2017 Steve Smiley points to a steady flow of water pouring into a playground in west suburban Maywood, convinced he knows...

Why our water rates are surging – and why black and poor suburbs pay more By Ted Gregory, Cecilia Reyes, Patrick M. O'Connell and Angela Caputo PUBLISHED: OCT. 25, 2017 Lake Michigan water rates have been surging throughout the Chicago region in recent years, squeezing low-income residents and...

One homeless man has been arrested or cited 270 times on the same charge, trespassing. He has never been represented by a lawyer. Courts Sidestep the Law, and South Carolina’s Poor Go to Jail