Homelessness in America
I WAS BLISSFULLY UNAWARE...
What if the cupboards are bare and you don't even have a cupboard or a house any more? Do you hit the soup kitchen? Hope the nearest homeless shelter has a bed? What if you have children and can't put a roof over their heads or food in their stomachs? What do you do? Until a cold November night in 1979, I was blissfully unaware of the homeless population in America. There are many excellent lenses on Squidoo about homelessness. This one is from my own personal perspective.

Why People Fear And Hate The Homeless
Why don't people have sympathy for homeless people?
With many Americans but a few paychecks away from homelessness it seems that most Americans would have a certain enhanced sympathy toward homeless people. However, it seems quite the opposite. Even as people see those around them, people they were once friends with, become homeless, the fears and hatred remain. Some people fear and hate homeless people so much that even if they know the people, such as when their elderly parents become homeless they apply those same hatreds and fears to the ...

Great Gifts for the Homeless
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Christmas is a season to be jolly. Unfortunately, there are people who can't be jolly at all. Either they had a divorce, lost their jobs, lost their belongings due to natural calamities, got jail term for minor offenses, lost their money due to Wall Street crash and whatever the cause may be. We are lucky to have roofs above our heads. Our homes are warm from the heat coming from the wood furnaces in our living rooms. At the touch of the button, we can regulate the temperature anytime of the...

Never Homeless
Homelessness in Our Society
Homelessness has been a problem throughout our society since the beginning of civilization. In recent decades, it has grown exceedingly worse proportional to the gap between the modern upper class world and lesser living standards. As recently as 2009, USA Today estimated as many as 1.6 million people used 'transitional' or emergency shelters, 30 percent of which are families - a 9% increase since 2007. The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty says as many as 3.5 million people a...