Diva Alert: I am Intolerant so I Became a Social Worker

@ULaVerne @ArcadiaCANews Educate yourself, enrich yourself with your own efforts and reach out and help those around you

8 College Degrees with the Worst Return on Investment – Salary.com

http://www.salary.com/8-college-degrees-with-the-worst-return-on-investment/slide/3/ Oh look, my degree is first on the list : Sociology. Not that this is a surprise.

Wicked Witch of the Welfare Office

#fb @sonyakeith @ascencia

Living Third World in a First World Country

#fb is Homelessness a #FirstWorldProblem? @padschicago@Path @Ascencia @Invisiblepeople

What was Your Call to Action ?

What good do you do? Why? What if other’s say it isn’t enough? #fb

Community College Co$ts

Get the Facts on Your Fees at California Community Colleges July 20, 2011 1) California community college fees are controlled by the state legislature, not by individual colleges. 2) Students at all 112 California community colleges will pay $36 per unit starting Fall 2011, a $10 per unit increase in tuition. 3) Even with the […]

Poverty = Women’s Issue

Not all women are poor, but most of the world’s poor are women. Most of the poor in Los Angeles are women. When you think about Welfare, admit it, your brain says “Welfare Mom”, not Welfare Dad, or Welfare Family. When I am handed a stack of cases (and lately I could build cities with […]

Things I wish Would Happen to End Homelessness

#fb. These steps would solve the problem. If only I could snap my fingers and make it happen. Create affordable housing that a single parent of one child who earns minimum wage can afford to rent. Do this by increasing the amount of housing available – ie: step 2 Convert half of the empty downtown […]

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 […]

Student Loans . . . if you can’t pay

Education = good. Unfair student lending and collections = financial crisis for students