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“Homelessness for Dummies”: The Economics of Living in the Street

Mass Incarceration in New Orleans: A toll on people living in poverty for their inability to pay the bail bond

By Maria Victoire

It is not a secret! On any given night, half a million people will sleep in a jail cell in the…

Every Body, Every Day, Every Way

By Karen A. Hart

In Racine, Wisconsin, a few of us volunteers have managed to tie in a solar-energy-installation training program for young adults with a local environmental initiative. It has been a big challenge for everyone involved to prepare…

In Detroit and Flint (USA), no more water for the poor

I am Justin Wedes, a co-founder of Detroit Water Brigade, a non-profit advocacy and rapid relief organization responding to the city’s aggressive water shut-off program. I work on water issues with low-income families, the homeless…

Personal Recollections of Homelessness — A Wound That Never Fully Heals

By Prof. S.M. Miller

Some years ago, while visiting Dublin, Ireland, I discovered that I had been homeless as a child in Brooklyn. I was consulting with Focus Point, a newly…

Literacy Week: Kids in the Hall Find ‘This Beautiful Thing Called Writing’

For incarcerated youth and adults literacy is about more than spelling words “correctly.” It’s about believing you have something to say and learning that people will listen.