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Despite rosy financial forecasts made by economists this spring, our fears that the nation is about to sink into another depression are reaching depressing extremes. A new CNN poll reveals that nearly half of Americans believe a 1930s-scale depression is possible within the next 12 months.
The operator of a homeless shelter in Los Angeles' Skid Row has hit upon an idea that's both economical and therapeutic: charging residents.
Sure, it's $7 a night ($2 of which is saved for the resident), but in these tough economic times every bit helps. As Sandy Banks of the Los Angeles Times...
The View from Camden, N.J.: Homeless and Missing the Recovery
11:00AM 1/26/2011
The economy may be rebounding, but the benefits have yet to filter down to the hundreds of thousands of homeless Americans. Here's the story of one homeless mother: how she wound up in a shelter in a tough town and how the world looks from her perspective.
The New York State Attorney General's office shut down a well-known organization that worked the streets of New York City asking for money to help the homeless, saying the group takes advantage of good-willed passersby and misuses donations.
Anyone living in New York more than a month likely has...
Since George W. Bush gutted regulations on the for-profit education industry, it has reaped huge profit growth, while appalling percentages of its students drop out with no degrees and big debts. Reregulation could lead those profits to plummet.
More road warriors using frequent flyer miles to get by
9:00AM 4/15/2010
When the Orange County Register recently broke a story about a former road warrior who is using his hotel and airline points to put a roof over his head, fellow frequent fliers quipped in an online forum that he's living out a "curiosity" for many -- on how long and well they could live off their...
A homeless man in Orange County, California is living a hotel version of the movie "Up in the Air," using frequent flier miles and hotel reward points to live in hotels while he looks for a job. Jim Kennedy, 46, turned 7,000 points from United Airlines and $100 in cash into a four-night stay this...
At the precise moment that President Obama was proclaiming how well his stimulus package worked, a news story crossed my computer screen saying that 10% of Los Angeles County's 50,000 homeless are now sleeping in their cars each night. Multiply that number of car-dwellers to include the whole...
A St. Louis homeless man, trying to stay warm, stumbled on the personal information of Macy's shoppers as he was building himself a bed with trash he found in a downtown store's Dumpster. And it's not the first time that's happened for that particular store.
Unsold clothes destroyed at H&M -- until Twitter roared.
2:10PM 1/07/2010
New York City's homeless may be wearing a motley collection of castoff clothing: the rejects from the closets of more financially-blessed residents, perhaps, or the logo merchandise from now-merged banks or defunct companies, maybe even some cast-offs from local discount retailers that lingered too...
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