Live on less than $2 a day

A poverty chart

http://www.upworthy.com/if-your-brain-were-a-bank-account-then-poverty-ah-forget-the-metaphor-and-just-read-the-chart?c=ufb1

Being held hostage by paperwork

Giggle…okay? Back to work

Last day of the month

my statement of Purpose for graduate school applications

It was a dark and silent night in the middle of the month. All of the addicts had spent and smoked their monthly benefit checks and were asleep on sidewalks and stoops of Stanford Avenue as I sat staring up at “Razor”, the local representative of the East Coast Crips, from the passenger seat of […]

Who was just invited to speak at Los Angeles Valley College Cal Works awards and commencement ceremony?

This girl!

When is it terrible and when is it terrorism: and when will we care. Step away from the sound byte.

When do we start to care about the angst of others? I have walked down streets at midnight and seen sleeping, waking, scared, indifferent people living on sodewalks. Clearly we talk about caring for our neighbors but don’t actually listen to their needs and take enough action. I have also done my homework on statistics […]

Toughen Up

My ears are ringing from this last call. It happens to everyone eventually. A client will be unhappy and feel that the telephone puts enough of a buffer to freak out on. Myself? I once made a U.S. Marine cry in a swearing contest. (My winning insult was "Donkey Snot" of all things . I […]

4 Things Nobody Tells You About Being Poor (@wellsfargo and I know the overdraft item was changed by law) on CRACKED.com

I used to owe the bank hundreds of dollars each month because i can’t do math. It isn’t that i won’t do it or don’t like it -I just can never be sure what numbers I am working with. I’m Dyslexic. This made banking a nightmare. At any rate. .. here is a great article […]

Author: Homeless

From Vox.com: It’s three times cheaper to give housing to the homeless than to keep them on the

More than 2 million Americans