Tag: poverty
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July 28, 2008 11:46 AM EDT --
My friend, Lyn, who has been homeless for a few months called me yesterday from West Virginia. She's been living in a tent up in the hills, hiding in the forest. Her parents died in a car accident . . .
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March 01, 2008 08:07 AM EST --
You pass me by on a crowded street
Without blinking an eye
And my days, they pass so swiftly now
I've no worries of how time flies
If I had been good enough . . .
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January 30, 2009 08:00 PM EST --
It is estimated that there are 19,000 homeless people living in Detroit. This man in the photo, who has not been identified, was found in the elevator shaft of an abandoned warehouse. . . .
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September 13, 2007 05:12 PM EDT --
I will never forget the site of this woman. She begged for a living. She sat everyday in the corner by the "farmacia." She picked and groomed her long witch-like . . .
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August 05, 2008 10:15 AM EDT --
Don't Let Them Spend Our Money!
by Marilyn Mackenzie
I got a message from GOPUSA today that deserves some attention. The information provided was also a part of the EXPOSEOBAMA.com . . .
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December 31, 2007 08:10 AM EST --
Promise at the end of the rainbow
Golden yellow brick road
Emerald blarney kiss
Deludes direction on a gilded path
Listen to my sapphire eyes
. . .
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June 23, 2009 02:50 PM EDT --
Missouri lawmaker on child hunger: ‘Hunger can be a positive motivator.’
In her June newsletter, State Rep. Cynthia Davis (R-MO) provided several “commentaries” . . .
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December 28, 2006 05:43 PM EST --
SADNESS, PAIN, AND POVERTY
It is warm and toasty in my house today. I feel so chilly on the inside though. A chill I cannot shake. I suffer the familiar chill when melancholy taps into my soul. . . .
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July 27, 2008 07:33 PM EDT --
With an empty stomach
eating his own hunger pangs
He complains not
broods not,
His silence speaks
when the riches are stone deaf
He may enters the gate of heaven
attain . . .
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July 07, 2006 03:34 PM EDT --
As one can imagine, growing up poor meant living in places that were not
for the weak or tender-hearted. You had to be tough to grow up in a slum. Life was hard and you had to roll with the punches. My . . .
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September 01, 2007 03:32 PM EDT --
Apparently, according to unemployment, it's much preferable to do nothing rather than to go back to school. Because Aus is going back to school, when he filed for unemployment last week (they make . . .
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October 30, 2007 03:44 PM EDT --
The real Dracula would not tolerate poverty. He therefore, invited all the poor of the town to come to his castle to eat and feast. There were about 1500 people there. He left . . .
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January 24, 2008 01:36 AM EST --
According to the same goverment labeling them "poor," our poor people don't really seem so poor in comparision to the rest of the world, and not just the so called third world.
I guess . . .
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December 11, 2008 10:21 AM EST --
This is a new show that's on TV recently. Have you seen? The premise is that they take these multi-millionaires and put them in a neighborhood that's poor. They pretend that . . .
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January 30, 2009 05:27 PM EST --
I found this article, and it was very disturbing to me, especially knowing that this really goes on all the time. Not only do they jail the homeless to "improve the appearance" of their . . .
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February 13, 2009 11:12 PM EST --
Is anyone else watching tonight's 20/20 story about life in Appalachia? Being born and raised in Guelph Ontario, and still living right here, 27 years later, it's blowing my mind! My husband, . . .
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June 24, 2009 08:13 PM EDT --
It may be the only food some families get.
One in five US children still live in poverty, a rate exceeded only in Poland, Mexico, and Turkey
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/27/22/42672498.pdf
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November 12, 2008 08:39 PM EST --
At the beginning of this month, in order to keep our electricity on, we only paid half of our rent, knowing that we would pay the second half this Friday, which is the first payday of the month. . . .
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January 08, 2009 04:36 PM EST --
She poses in the doorway
as the shiny SUV glides by.
She purses her lips in that way
she's seen the big girls do.
The SUV continues on by.
They are going somewhere
else, leaving her here. . . .
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April 14, 2009 09:32 AM EDT --
Wonderful, gorgeous and beautiful day
If peace is found, storm clouds clap together
Gently rains moisten opportunity
Vast majority, eyes full of hope, smiles
Prayers to cease hostilities, still waters . . .
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