@hardlynormal @wearevisible @urm @epath Is it really possible for advocates to have the best interest of the poor in mind when we go home to beds and they go to shelters and boxes?
Read More Are Advocates for the Poor Really Poverty Pimps?I am frustrated today. “I can’t learn anything, I am pregnant!” “You won’t give me more money for my new baby?!?!” “I don’t see why I have to look for work if I have to take maternity leave in over half a year”. Here is my frustration – you are in CalWORKS because you […]
Read More Today’s desk sign.The sign bearers are not just asking for one meal, one night of sleep, or one hand out – they are looking for momentary hope so they can face the bigger issues they are up against. They are asking for one bite sized morsel of HOPE. How often do you help by giving hope […]
Read More HopeLast week the rate of Homeless Welfare parents who sat at my desk without earning a GED or High School Diploma was 80%. The number was easy to calculate: I only saw 20 clients and 16 of them came to CalWORKS without a High school Education. Of the 4 who had a GED/HS Diploma – one […]
Read More Education vs. Welfare – Please Set Your Priorities on StunWere you ready to pay for housing and pay your bills? Did you have a job? Did you know how to apply for a job? The day you graduated from highschool, where did you sleep that night? If you needed a family member to talk to – did you have one? Hundreds of California’s emancipated […]
Read More The day you turned 18, were you ready?To end poverty and benefit the community as a whole – should you spend your dollars on infrastructure or social services? Do you fund the painful symptom or cure the illness? You have to do both. Building enough homeless shelters to house everyone only puts people in shelters – it does not give them any […]
Read More Infrastructure or Social Services?Every thing you wanted to know about GAIN and how you already have work required for Welfare
Read More Work for WelfareMine! Social Work is the worst paying college degree profession according to the Yahoo.com headline today. This is no surprise to me at all. “1. Social work (starting annual salary: $33,400; mid-career annual salary: $41,600) They say that crime doesn’t pay. As this list seems to point out, neither does helping people. So it’s a […]
Read More #1 lowest paying job with a degree…My first day in my first office at The LAMP Lodge in LA’s Skid Row was completely disgusting. I had a wobbly 3 legged table with an old computer perched on it and a cardboard box holding up a printer and a filing cabinet. Oh, and a yellow kitchen chair rejected from the 1950’s. My […]
Read More Sanitizing HomelessnessThis is the list of comments I hope to never hear again… Good mother’s don’t go to work I was going to call you and reschedule, but then it occurred to me, I don’t have a phone. I went to a payphone, but then it hit me: I don’t have $.25 to call. I started […]
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