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Obama's got another record: Child Homelessness in the USA, Obama! Obama!
Posted on 11/17/14 at 10:46 am
Posted on 11/17/14 at 10:46 am
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The number of homeless children in the U.S. has surged in recent years to an all-time high, amounting to one child in every 30, according to a comprehensive state-by-state report that blames the nation’s high poverty rate, the lack of affordable housing and the impacts of pervasive domestic violence.
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Posted on 11/17/14 at 10:47 am to CptBengal
this will become a big national crisis the moment that a GOP'er becomes POTUS
Posted on 11/17/14 at 10:52 am to CptBengal
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The crux of the problem, she said, is the state’s high cost of living, coupled with insufficient affordable housing.
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“We need more affordable housing or we need to pay people $25 an hour,” she said. “The minimum wage isn’t cutting it.”
Wow.
Let's give everyone $1 million, then there won't be any poor people.
Posted on 11/17/14 at 10:54 am to CptBengal
I'll set this one up for SFP.
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Austin, due to have a second child in December, is grateful for the shelter’s support but said its rules had been challenging. With her son in tow, she was expected to vacate the premises each morning by 8 a.m. and not return before 5 p.m.
“I’d go to the park, or drive around,” she said. “It was kind of hard.
Posted on 11/17/14 at 10:55 am to CptBengal
Gee more great news.
Lets see what the liars er...spin meisters come up with past "it was bad under Bush too" and "I just read that."
Lets see what the liars er...spin meisters come up with past "it was bad under Bush too" and "I just read that."
Posted on 11/17/14 at 10:58 am to goatmilker
This is the exact reason why they refuse to cut entitlement funding in the face of their miraculously low unemployment numbers. They know it's a farce.
Posted on 11/17/14 at 10:58 am to upgrayedd
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Let's give everyone $1 million, then there won't be any poor people.
For 6 months - a year tops. Then 95% of the poor people to whom you gave $1 million will be poor again.
You see, wealth is the cumulative effect of good decisions - yes, sometimes multi-generational ones, but good decisions. People that develop this wealth pass on those traits and wisdom on to subsequent generations. Ditto for poor people - poverty is the cumulative effect of poor decisions - in many cases it is ignorance, but often it is willful ignorance to wallow in poverty.
But, all $1 million to a financially illiterate person will do - without additional controls and limitations - will merely enable him or her to make $1 million worth of terrible decisions - depreciating assets (cars/trucks, cheap, gaudy jewelry), tattoos, cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, and a bunch of cheap plastic crap from Wal-Mart - again 6 months to 1 year, same situation, with maybe a little more junk accumulated.
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Posted on 11/17/14 at 10:59 am to upgrayedd
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Austin, due to have a second child in December
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“I’d go to the park, or drive around,” she said. “It was kind of hard.
sounds very hard indeed. maybe she should get knocked up a few more times while living in a shelter. meanwhile im over here living the easy life by waking up and going to work every morning. i feel like i should be sending this poor woman a check every month.
This post was edited on 11/17/14 at 11:01 am
Posted on 11/17/14 at 11:01 am to upgrayedd
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“We need more affordable housing or we need to pay people $25 an hour,” she said. “The minimum wage isn’t cutting it.”
So artificially raise wages while artificially suppressing prices?
Yeah, nothing could go wrong here.
Have any of these people ever picked up a history book?
Posted on 11/17/14 at 11:03 am to Ace Midnight
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But, all $1 million dollars to a financially illiterate person will do - without additional controls and limitations - will merely enable him or her to make $1 million dollars worth of terrible decisions - depreciating assets (cars/trucks, cheap, gaudy jewelry), tattoos, cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, and a bunch of cheap plastic crap from Wal-Mart - again 6 months to 1 year, same situation, with maybe a little more junk accumulated.
The proposed $25/hr minimum wage won't reduce the cost of living but will rather have the opposite effect and those people will be in the same situation (more likely a worse one).
Posted on 11/17/14 at 11:10 am to Ace Midnight
No wealth is solely from the white man using his privilege to steal money from disadvantage and oppressed minorities for generations and usurping their labor for personal gain.
We need to tax them more and evenly distribute the wealth to level the field. Without government intervention the problem will continue to get worse as the white man uses his inherited advantages to stay on top and keep minorities at the bottom.
We need to tax them more and evenly distribute the wealth to level the field. Without government intervention the problem will continue to get worse as the white man uses his inherited advantages to stay on top and keep minorities at the bottom.
Posted on 11/17/14 at 11:16 am to deltaland
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No wealth is solely from the white man using his privilege to steal money from disadvantage and oppressed minorities for generations and usurping their labor for personal gain.
Women too. Don't forget about oppressing women.
Posted on 11/17/14 at 11:17 am to CptBengal
Stop the war on children 2016
Posted on 11/17/14 at 11:19 am to Champagne
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this will become a big national crisis the moment that a GOP'er becomes POTUS
Posted on 11/17/14 at 11:31 am to Ace Midnight
It wouldn't take six months. They would be instantly poor. Things have value when they are rare. Having a million of something everyone else has makes that thing worthless. A loaf of bread would cost $100,000 within days.
Posted on 11/17/14 at 12:16 pm to CptBengal
How the frick can they blame lack of affordable housing?
Posted on 11/17/14 at 12:19 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Also, notice that the report finds that 1/5 of the homeless children are in California.
Posted on 11/17/14 at 12:24 pm to upgrayedd
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“We need more affordable housing or we need to pay people $25 an hour,” she said. “The minimum wage isn't cutting it.”
Or, or! Hear me out...we could encourage people to start having babies after marriage, not before?
What do you think of that idea? would it work?
Posted on 11/17/14 at 12:25 pm to ApexTiger
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Or, or! Hear me out...we could encourage people to start having babies when they can afford them, not before?
Fixed.
Posted on 11/17/14 at 12:26 pm to upgrayedd
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Or, or! Hear me out...we could encourage people to start having babies after they are married and when they can afford them, not before?
fixed again!
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