The homeless people on my block are being forced to compete with young professionals for midday squatting rites. The young professionals are attracted by a food service business that sells them gourmet coffee and lunch from a waist-high street-side window. Each working day, they pour onto the block and gather in front of the window [...]
Monday, March 16, 2009
San Francisco’s municipal leaders exude considerable pride when they assert that they have removed approximately 8,000 homeless people from the city’s streets during the past six years. Pride is also evident when they discuss the number of homeless people who have been substantially rehabilitated during their watch via municipal assistance.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
The current economic crisis is inexorably tightening the vise of poverty that has been strangling this nation’s poorest citizens for several decades.
Monday, January 12, 2009
We should all be deeply concerned about the conspicuous avoidance practiced by mainstream organs of journalism regarding the rising number of homeless U.S. citizens. The print and broadcast media devote, it seems, as little attention to the subject as they possibly can.
Monday, January 5, 2009
An old man, and two ill-tempered dogs, have been living for the past few month on my block, in a ready-for-the-scrap-heap van. The man moves the van a few feet each day in order to avoid parking tickets. Sometimes he parks it on the south end of the block, and sometimes on the north. This [...]
Monday, January 5, 2009
I have lived through more economic recessions than I care to recall, and I believe I have spent more than my fair share of days coping with the daily ravages of up close and personal poverty. Unpleasant memories of such events motivate my tendency to keep close watch on the money scene. Given what I [...]
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
One of the most tragic indications of the desperate straits of tens of millions of poor people here in the United States is the ominously expanding group experiencing chronic hunger. They exist in every section of the nation, and their suffering weighs heavy on everyone of good conscience.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Although I have arguably been a professional writer for more than 40 years, and been published in various kinds of formats in several nations, I must acknowledge that I am more than a little perplexed by some of the problems associated with posting information on the Internet. Prior to the arrival of this incredibly empowering [...]
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
This is a propitious moment to try to influence the national dialogue regarding endemic poverty and homelessness here in the United States. Three factors in particular lead me to this conclusion: the $700 billion bailout for Wall Street engineered by the U.S. Congress, the global financial crisis, and the mandate for change recently extended to [...]
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Everyone paying close attention to the campaigns for the presidency being waged by Barack Obama and John McCain is aware that they are studiously avoiding all references to endemic poverty and homelessness. On a daily basis, the two of them, and their legions of on-message surrogates, assail us with words intended to convey the intensity [...]
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