I attended a session this week on food and housing needs in Los Angeles with a panel of experts from both public and nonprofit agencies. What they had to share was truly scary. According to Miguel Santana from LA County, there has been a 30% increase in homeless families in the past year (which they [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Rising demands for food and shelter
Posted in Homelessness, Poverty, tagged food insecurity, Homelessness, Poverty on January 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There but for the grace of God go I
Posted in Homelessness, tagged Homelessness on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s L.A. Times op-ed page had a touching account from Les Gapay, a former reporter at the Wall Street Journal, of how precious a permanent home is. Les, someone will all the qualifications to be successful in this knowledge economy, found himself homeless 6 1/2 years ago: “It was surprisingly easy to become homeless. A [...]
Deep Poverty in the U.S.
Posted in Homelessness, Poverty, tagged deep poverty, Employment, extreme poverty, Homelessness, Poverty on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The current economic crisis (punctuated with the loss of 60,000 jobs in one day!) is generating financial insecurity for people at most income levels, swelling the ranks of the poor and working poor in this country. What about for the most vulnerable people, those who are homeless or on the brink of homelessness? Several recent [...]
Introduction to this blog on Poverty and Inequality
Posted in General on January 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Background on my motivations for creating this blog
