Tips From “Slate” on Job Applications

The end to homelessness is housing and rent means money :so finding a place to pay you is important. Each week I am handed resumes from clients and co-workers. Some of these documents look like paragraphs of "prideful puke" and others have been 4 pages long and didn’t visibly scream "resume". Read this article and […]

A life you never had

How do you rebuild a life you never had? @Hardlynormal makes a good point.

Set an example

Client sent me a 5,010 word email. … I read it. I’m delighted her 5 u r old son wants to be a shark biologist. I’d be more.delighted if she had career goals of her own.

What is the dream you have for yourself?

We are caregivers and often put the needs and comforts before our own desires. At some point we forget to dream and plan for our own dreams… So I am asking you : what 1 dream (centered around only you) do you have?

What People on Public Assistance Are Actually Asking For vs What Public Opinion Believes the Poor Have Signed Up For

The Crumb Diaries (great blog and I follow on Facebook) has posed a series of questions about people on food stamps who then use cash to purchase non-food stamp-eligible items that may be seen as “vice” items. Beer, cigarettes, cold medicine, gum, hard liquor: these are the items that incite rage into the taxpayers who […]

When feeding your hunger isn’t always a SNAP

Originally posted on thecrumbdiaries:
By now I’m sure you’ve heard of the SNAP challenge that many celebrities are joining in on. I saw it but didn’t give it too much attention because it’s nowhere near the same as living on a meager food budget day after day, week after week, sometimes year after year. It’s not…

26 Things Everyone Should Be Told

26 Things all Black Girls and Latinas (and everyone else too) should be told.

Confessions of a Tired Working Mom | Babble

I used to have dreams that I was sleeping on a 200 foot high cliff shelf with Jax and always about to fall off. Being a single, working mom in poverty was terrifying. Even now I feel guilty for all the stuff I wasn’t able to do or had to work through. And I think […]

ATTN: Next Time You Judge Someone on Food Stamps, Remember This…

Next Time You Judge Someone on Food Stamps, Remember This… http://www.attn.com/stories/106/next-time-you-judge-someone-food-stamps-remember

Homeless Men Accused Of Assault Pled Guilty, Then A Video Changed Everything (VIDEO)

This reminds me of the red and purple shorted security in downtown. Look what I found at AddictingInfo.org! http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/04/06/homeless-men-accused-of-assault-pled-guilty-then-a-video-changed-everything-video/