Joel Roberts’ LA’s Homeless Blog ran a series of posts on the effort last week in Long Beach to survey chronically homeless persons living on the streets, part of the Long Beach Connections Initiative. The goal of the survey was to identify the most vulnerable people living on the streets as part of a community-wide [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Humanizing homelessness in Long Beach
Posted in Homelessness, Los Angeles, Poverty, tagged Homelessness, Long Beach on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Inequality and insecurity, Latin American style
Posted in General, Poverty, tagged crime, Ecuador, inequality, insecurity, Latin America, Poverty on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am currently visiting family and friends in Ecuador, where I cannot help but be confronted daily with poverty and inequality. Having lived here in the early 1990s and returning at least every couple years since then, I’ve been able to observe the changes occurring – some positive but many negative – in this country [...]
Vulnerability and hope for foster children
Posted in General, Youth, tagged child welfare, foster care, foster youth, Youth on July 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Kids in the child welfare system are among the most vulnerable people in our society. The educational and socio-economic outcomes for foster youth are staggeringly abysmal. According to the Child Welfare League of America:
There are more than 500,000 in foster care in the U.S., at an average age of 10 years and an average stay [...]
Steep rise in mass layoffs
Posted in Economy, Employment, tagged Economy, Employment, layoffs on July 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Analysis by researchers at the Economic Policy Institute clearly shows the extent to which the economy is losing jobs. Mass layoffs – defined as letting go of 50 or more people by a single employer – have doubled over the last couple years and are at their highest level in the last 15 years. [...]
