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Stockhausen M

Homeless Housing - 1 views

www.homelessfamiliesfoundation.org/shelter_and_housing.html

homeless housing emergency shelter

shared by Stockhausen M on 13 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Stockhausen M on 13 Jan 11
     
    This article is about how the homeless are sheltered. It is the website of an organization that oporates an emergency shelter. I was happy to see how much came with the shelter and that people weren't just thrown into an empty space.
  • Kruzan A on 13 Jan 11
     
    I agree with Miranda, i was happy to see that the people got housing and were not all thrown into one room with a bunch of other people, and some blankets. That would make me feel really appreciated.
  • Plummer H on 13 Jan 11
     
    i thought it was great that it came with a food starter kit.
Shockley L

Statistics on Poverty and Food Wastage in America - 6 views

www.soundvision.com/...statistics.asp

Food Poverty Stats on Poverty

shared by Shockley L on 11 Jan 11 - Cached
  • Stonerook J on 11 Jan 11
     
    Includes many statistics, such as food wastage in America (over 100 billion lbs per year!) and poverty rate for children (55% for children under 6 living with a single mother!). I Found some of these statistics very surprising, but sadly, not unbelieveable.
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  • Carnahan H on 11 Jan 11
     
    I can't believe Americans waste about 100 billion pounds of food each year.
  • Hyre A on 11 Jan 11
     
    It's hard to believe that so many people in the world's richest country aren't always able to put food on the table. it is especially sad that so many children go to bed hungry. but i'm glad there are companies out there that help the hungry and supply them with food.
  • Allen C on 11 Jan 11
     
    With the amount of resources wasted here, we can feed every homeless person! We're not very considerate...
  • Bloom A on 11 Jan 11
     
    wow thats really aweful how much we abuse our resources so badly, and yet not surprising like julia said
  • Gonzalez A on 12 Jan 11
     
    With the knowledge that so much of our food is being wasted, I wonder if things have been put into action to help this.
  • Mehl L on 12 Jan 11
     
    its amazing how unbalanced wealth is
  • Magnuson A on 12 Jan 11
     
    What I found hard to swallow was that people wasted 14% of their food. That just strikes me as wasteful.
  • Eyen J on 12 Jan 11
     
    I think that 20% of people in the US who request food not getting it is crazy, especially in America where we have some of the richest people in the world.
  • Lide E on 12 Jan 11
     
    This article gives information on Food wasage in america. It tels how much food is wated per year and how many people would have gladly accepted it. This article also gives some statistics on poverty in the united states.
  • Shockley L on 13 Jan 11
     
    35.9 million people in America live below the poverty line. About 100 billion pounds of food each year is wasted in America. Those living in poverty would gladly accept the food that would go to waste. Some families have to skip a meal or each very little becasue they can't afford to eat alot. In a house, about 14% of the food that is bought will be wasted. And around 49 million people could have been fed by that food. \nSeeing all of the wasted food and people that could use that food makes me want to find a way to save some of that food and give it to people in poverty. Also it's sad to know that there are alot of kids out there that live in poverty. If I were a parent it would be hard on me not being able to provide for my kids.
Demmler A

poverty in ohio - 11 views

www.dispatch.com/...poverty-soars-in-ohio.html

poverty facts hunger statistics causes

shared by Demmler A on 11 Jan 11 - Cached
  • Kelly S on 11 Jan 11
     
    proverty has grown 41.7 percent in ohio last year. Most of the people who have proverty has a family of four. Thats just sad because i have a family of 4 and we are having hard times with money. My family is working out the prombles fast because we don't want to go homeless.
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  • Carnahan H on 11 Jan 11
     
    Poverty isn't just in other countries, it is in our country and our own state.
  • Chesser G on 11 Jan 11
     
    poverty is everywhere, not just in our country but all over the world
  • Matson K on 11 Jan 11
     
    I can not believe 1.5 million people in ohio make less then $22,050 a year. Its so sad, to think that maybe they couldn't get food for their family or have a cozy house to go to at night.
  • Foster H on 11 Jan 11
     
    there was a great family in ohio, then one day everything changed and turned in a different direction. one night the father looses his job, and then that once great family became under the level of poverty. they need help!
  • Semmelroth R on 11 Jan 11
     
    This article form the Columbus Dispatch is talking about how Ohio's population has increased since 2002 by 1.2 percent while the people living in poverty has grown 41.7%. I was really surprised at how many people live in poverty in our state. I think That This increase had to do with so many job losses in ohio
  • Dendiu S on 11 Jan 11
     
    yes but its in our state too. some of us don't realize. probably some of us thought it was in like africa at first.
  • Gilles C on 11 Jan 11
     
    I know there is poverty everywhere, but never thought there was so much in Ohio.
  • Tuttle S on 11 Jan 11
     
    Jeez, I'm almost 16 years-old, and knowing that I might not get a good paying sulks, and knowing that Ohio is going into poverty makes it even more worse! I wonder what it will be like in 2015, or 2020?
  • Korn A on 11 Jan 11
     
    This is an article about rising poverty in Ohio. This was really shocking that poverty is really becoming a problem in Ohio.
  • Custer K on 11 Jan 11
     
    This article in the Columbus Dispatch gives statistics and info about the poverty rate in Ohio. Acording to the article, 1.5 million people live in Ohio, and 13.7% of them live in poverty. This shocks me because I've never really seen or heard of people living in Ohio being in poverty.
  • Semmelroth R on 11 Jan 11
     
    Yea like my mom works for Marion City school and works with special needs kids with adhd learning disabilites and most of the famileis in Marion Live in Poverty. It just makes me sad.
  • Ackerman B on 11 Jan 11
     
    This is a really, really interesting article. I had no clue that there was so much poverty in Ohio. You just sort of always think it's somewhere else, not in your own city.
  • Phillips L on 12 Jan 11
     
    Gives an overview of poverty statistics in Ohio. It's surprising that the number of people living in poverty has grown by 40% as well as a little disturbing.
  • Reed E on 12 Jan 11
     
    Extremely eye opening. i thought the same thing as a lot of people that Columbus was pretty well off and wealthy... apperantly not.
  • Teets S on 13 Jan 11
     
    This article was posted on January 22, 2010, just one year ago. In this article you will find suprising statstics, showing the hgh rate of poverty in our own home state. The unemployment rate has soared in the past few years, and more Ohioans are finding it hard to cope. This article almost made me sick to my stomach, seeing that so many people are living in poverty, and that I was totoally oblivious to it. I felt guilty in a sense, since I have not even NOTICED that there was such a problem with poverty. It was very informational, as well as somewhat recent.
  • Mullet K on 13 Jan 11
     
    This article literally comes close to home. Everybody thinks that Columbus and the suburbs of it are really rich, but the statistics proved me wrong.. And the fact that we've gone nine months now with "double digit unemployment" is too bad. Everybody deserves to be supported. If our society makes money so important for life, why can't they provide jobs? Ridiculous...
  • Kading R on 13 Jan 11
     
    I like this article because it shows that poverty isnt just in africa, but its in the us to.
  • Fischbach J on 14 Jan 11
     
    I thought that this article contained many good statistics. The one about how the population living in Ohio has grown by 41 percent since 2002 was very fascinating and sad to hear. That is a huge change.
  • Demmler A on 14 Jan 11
     
    this gives information about the poverty levels in ohio and gives the total household income of every year (22,000). they wern't joking at the food pantry. this is something that people really need to think about.
  • Estice H on 14 Jan 11
     
    It was surprising that the population only increased 1% but the poverty level increased 41%. It made me realize how many people are in poverty right here in Ohio.
  • Costello R on 14 Jan 11
     
    i am very surprised that about 33% of Ohio people are poor :(
Kruzan A

Solutions for Poverty from the White House - 7 views

www.whitehouse.gov/poverty

Solutions

shared by Kruzan A on 12 Jan 11 - Cached
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  • Kruzan A on 12 Jan 11
     
    This talk about what Barack Obama is doing to handle poverty.Wow, they are giving 20 billion dollars to food stamps, and that seems like so much to us, but really that will not feed all of the poverty in America.
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  • Stockhausen M on 13 Jan 11
     
    I like that the overnment is taking stops to help poverty, but I agree that it will not even come close to ending poverty.
  • Bloom A on 14 Jan 11
     
    I cant believe how much money it will cost us to help fight poverty and hunger. We already have everything that is needed for everyone to survive. It is just a problem of sharing it.
  • Korn A on 14 Jan 11
     
    it was interesting to see what the government is doing to alleviate poverty. The article talked about an act that they made to help people in poverty.
Walouke A

Being in Poverty is Humiliating - 0 views

www.thinkaboutpoverty.com/humility.html

hunger humiliating poverty

shared by Walouke A on 12 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Walouke A on 12 Jan 11
     
    This story is about a women who is housing 4 children without food or money. She is offered help from her parents. She is humiliated to have to have food donated to her because how they can not afford any food. I never thought people would be humiliated to recieve food from their own family members.
Plummer H

Ted Williams with Golden Voice and the Myths About Homelessness - 7 views

www.associatedcontent.com/...with_golden_voice_and_pg2.html

homeless

shared by Plummer H on 12 Jan 11 - No Cached
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  • Plummer H on 12 Jan 11
     
    I liked this artical because not only did it show that some myths about homless people arn't ture is also showed a story about a man who wasonce homless but now has a job and i thought i was uplefting.
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  • Cooperman H on 13 Jan 11
     
    I remember hearing abut that guy n tv! I never really knew that there where "myths" about poverty. It was really interesting to see the stereotypes that people come up with.
  • Smyth C on 13 Jan 11
     
    TED WILLIAMS. he is so amazing I love his story. It makes me really happy to know that hes going to visit his mom for the first time in like 40 years thats so sweet. C:
  • Borror D on 13 Jan 11
     
    That's so sweet that he's the announcer for the Cavaliers now! He was in a macaroni and cheese commercial too. It's so crazy that he went from homeless to famous in two days!
  • Chesser G on 13 Jan 11
     
    Its nice to see someone overcome such a problem and able to beat it. Really gives me hope that our nation can beat this problem
  • Sun K on 13 Jan 11
     
    i think people really need to read this srticle-it's short and sweet, but kills a lot of mithys about poverty. go Ted!
  • Liu D on 13 Jan 11
     
    I think that this story shows that you can get out of poverty! It shows hope to a lot of different people including those in poverty.
  • Borror D on 13 Jan 11
     
    yeah Declan........ All you need is a perfect radio voice.... -_____-
  • Teets S on 13 Jan 11
     
    At first I thought that this man's story was amazing, but as his real story developed, I was disgusted by this story. Turns out that he was a drug addict and that he has (still is) physically abused his daughter, lying to her, saying that he was sober when really he was slobbering drunk. Now he is going to rehab. Guys, rehab isn't free. Who's paying for that? Some person who felt generous. Well, why is it that the people who have chosen to throw their lives away get all this support? What about the people who are pure? While this man gets attention for being a drug addict, people are STILL starving on the streets. Juss' sayin.
  • Chesser G on 13 Jan 11
     
    shelby, the guy overcame homelessness and poverty and has pratically turned his life around. Rehab will help the guy to become a better person. I think his story is pretty remarkable
  • Kelly S on 13 Jan 11
     
    He a drug addict. He can't pay for it so someone elso is paying for his rehab when that money can go to the streets were familys need it most.
  • Teets S on 14 Jan 11
     
    I would disagree; other people turned his life around for him. Do you really think that if he didn't have rehab PAYED FOR HIM he would have sought help for his addiction? He wouldn't have told anybody :/ Sure, it's awesome that he was found on the street, and that HIS life is better, but there are STILL people who I believe deserve help more than him. It makes me sick that all the corrupt people are the ones who get all the attention, when the pure are left to fend for themselves.
  • Costello R on 14 Jan 11
     
    I like this article it is very interesting about how he was homeless one day and then in 3 days he's now rich and has a house. so i think what they are trying to say is that not all homeless people are non talented school drop outs. they are trying to say that some are very talented and might have messed up in life.
Stockhausen M

Homelessness Doesn't Have To Be A Death Sentence - 0 views

uspoverty.change.org/...nt_have_to_be_a_death_sentence

solutions Homeless problems

shared by Stockhausen M on 14 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Stockhausen M on 14 Jan 11
     
    This site is about a new system to help solve homelessness. It is called a Vulnerability Index and provides housing for the homeless. I was saddened by reading that when you see someone who is homeless you are essentially seeing someone who is dieing.
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