Should Kids Know About Skid Row?

#fb when should I tell this new baby about the living conditions of some of Mommy’s friends

School on Wheels @schoolonwheels

Since you are already thinking about candy and children – give an extra thought to school kids. Particularly those who are homeless with parents who may not be able ( due to time or their own education ) to help them with homework and learning. Here, in Los Angeles, we have a wonderful resource and it […]

Prop 13 – The Parts that Ruined California

#fb What Prop 13 is: At a high point in the housing boom with a housing shortage driving property values up – Prop 13 reassess property tax values from 3% of their current value in 1978 to 1% of their value from before the housing boom. This was great for the poor and elderly on […]

CA Child Poverty facts

#fb Did you know: As many children who are living in poverty live in TWO PARENT households as those who live with a Single Parent? California has more impoverished children than any other state in the nation. 1 of every 6 poor children in the USA lives in California the rate of poverty in children […]

Dreams no child should need to have

#fb A former client who is now trying to get into the @LADreamCenter with @matthewbarnett spent the morning with me. She brought her 3-year-old daughter. The little girl had curly brown hair and traces of strawberry juice across her growing smile while she talked to me about living in her car with her mother and 14-year-old brother. […]

Welfare Warriors and Mommy Bloggers

@helpamotherout @jessicagottlieb Today we are going to explore groups of people who found a way to use their voices to 1. Be heard 2. Change their corner of the world to make it nicer for everyone. Let’s start with my favorite combination of these two groups: http://www.helpamotherout.org/” It can take an average of $1,100 a year […]

@BreathLA – I fixed your hand out #fb

Asthma Camp starts happens on November 3rd at 4:30 pm this year. Unfortunately the flyer that was mailed to every County of LA worker said it was on November 00, 2010 from 00pm-oopm. OOPS! I called Mildred and she gave me the correct info. Feel free to copy and paste at will. I am a big […]

Dave Matthews Band and Starving Children#fb

DMB performed this song:Seek Up “Sit a while with TV’s hungry child, big belly swelled Oh, for the price of a coke or a smoke keep alive those hungry eyes Take a look at me, what you see in me, mirror look at me Face it all, face it all again.” I am really sorry […]

Focus on the Future and Tonight’s Problem

In the streets of Los Angeles, every night – even tonight – children will fall asleep in the backs of cars, in boxes, in shelter beds, borrowed sleeping bags, motel rooms and anywhere else their parent(s) can find for them. It is really easy to be distracted by politics, rhetoric, pomp and circumstance – but […]

Census missed 460,000 children in poverty

“Unrelated individuals under 15 are excluded from the poverty universe” I know, the art work isn’t great, but it is my best explanation of how 460,000 children were not counted in the Census data. This loop hole should be closed by the next census – but it means that when we talk about the 1.7% jump in […]