Women in Poverty

Thoughts?

The Trauma of Leaving Work on Skid Row

I noticed something as I read the LA Times today : I search the photographs of homeless people searching for familiar faces. My breath caught – my heart stopped – and I did a double take because I thought I saw Maria’s face outside a tent.

Let’s Discuss Dignity

Meet Each Need with Dignity. What does that look like?

Recently Missing Children

It feels like children are vanishing into the fears of their parents and out of sight with each rising sun. Please search the faces of the youngsters you pass on the streets for these kids.

No attention span

Dude. It is 11 am today, and I just realized I made coffee at 4pm yesterday and never drank it. Actually,I forgot all about it. What kind of monster forgets she made coffee?!?!?!? Of course I’m writing mid term papers and the kid has a 102 degree fever…. but coffee guys, coffee?

No EBT accepted: get a job

Wow. So many of the “working poor” are on public assistance that this sign just makes me angry.

Clear Label

This might be the most user-friendly thing I have seen yet. The rules for how to manage and use a food stamp card are not complex but often hidden. You can buy cold chicken but not hot chicken. But what about pre-packed is chicken? I like that this grocery store has taken the moment to […]

Los Angeles’s New Map for Overnight

If you live in your car or have to sleep in your car overnight, you need to know about the new rules for where this is legal. Restrictions have been placed to keep you away from parks, schools and day cars. (Apparently the LA City council thinks you are all child molesters ?) Do you see […]

Join the Resistance

If the normal order of business is to buy yourself into a job, to use cronyism to save money for your friends, and to ignore the little guy, then I say we have to resist. I’m contemplating wearing my hair like this every day as a symbol of my resistance to the current forces and […]

To the Parents Kicking out Kids Who are Gay & Transsexuals

I read an article in The Blaze about The Boy Scouts accepting transgendered and gay children . . . Or as I call them, children who already face challenges. 40% of the 1.6 million children who are homeless each year identify as gay or Transgendered. Funny, I always thought the Christian stance was to love […]