The smart reason to buy soda with your SNAP / food stamp card

For a person so strapped for cash that they use food stamps to buy groceries there is one item that pays you back for their purchase. Recyclable bottle and cans are not charged the 5 vent tax at purchase but can be recycled for the reward money. It is the only item that benefits you […]

Find Food

Here are pages that will help you find food pantries, donations, and resources. Los Angeles Regional Food Bank Food Pantries Westside Food Bank Food Share Feed So Cal MEND Food Bank

Homeless Advocates Divided Over Bill Aimed At Helping Kids

Families with children make up a large part of the homeless population. I can promise this is all I see 40 hours a week. Yes, Couch Surfing is homelessness. Hotel hoping and the 28 day Shuffle is homeless. It is temporary and there is no guarantee people can be stable and stay there long term. […]

Who Qualifies for Welfare

Requirements § Family must have a child(ren) in the home who has been deprived of parental support or care because of the absence, disability or death of either parent. § Child(ren) must live with a parent or relative caretaker. If you don’t have children living with you , you don’t qualify for Aid to Families […]

President Obama Doesn’t Know About the Poverty Illuminati

Secret Meeting of the Poverty Illuminati : my house tomorrow at noon. Bring plans to use your E.B.T. card to outsource jobs, keep rich people from paying taxes and giving billions in Food Stamp funds to millionaire farmers. Let’s go people. .. this country isn’t going to ruin itself! (P.s. I just made that up. […]

Google Alert – homeless “los angeles”

Do you ever read the comment sections for the Trolls? These are the comments from an article I linked to a few days ago http://la.curbed.com/archives/2015/05/wildly_unaffordable_los_angeles_has_a_lot_more_homeless_people_than_it_used_to.php here: Thanks a lot Airbnb! #technologyruinedmylife #2. 05/11/15 04:55 PMReply to this. Mikeday609 To link Airbnb units to homelessness is just silly, those units would be expensive anyway for homeless […]

Give me your leads and suggestions

I need to update my resource list. Clothing places like Deseret Industries, Society of St. Vincent de Paul … Employment and child care : Boyle Heights Family source, Worksource, Homeboy Indistries… Food Clothing Shelter Low income housing Job training Employment placement Therapies Remedial Education Financial Literacy

The Ugly Heartbreak

Of the true face of homelessness. She was quivering and holding so tightly to the chair that her fingers lost color. Her eyes couldn’t meet mine and tears leaked out of them. This poor mother has a second grade education and mental illness so profound I think she barely heard me over the voices in […]

A Lot More People Are Homeless in Los Angeles These Days

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2015/05/wildly_unaffordable_los_angeles_has_a_lot_more_homeless_people_than_it_used_to.php Sonya Keith darlasmom.com glittersprinkle.com homelessinla.com 626.755.8015

Dirty Work

Wash your hands. Just, please, wash them. Also – note the nearest restroom to the office you just walked out of. I just came out of the ladies room and saw someone with signed papers in her mouth while she washed her hands. based on the location and smell – I assume she wasn’t just […]