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Over the past decades or so, the availability and quality of data on homelessness has improved considerably, due in part to initiatives by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the US Department of Health and Human Services, the US Department of Veterans Affairs, and several nongovernmental organizations working with homeless populations. Since 2007, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development has issued an Annual Homeless Assessment Report, which reports to Congress the number of individuals and families who are homeless in the previous year, both sheltered and unsheltered,
driving through parts of South Carolina, you honestly would believe you are in Mexico, people without jobs, living in small shacks etc.
Florida, also.
Welcome to President Barack Obama's Big Government Utopia.
It's really quite simple. The more economic freedom a country enjoys the wealthier her people. The less economic freedom (govt interference in the market) the poorer her people become. This has been true in every country that ever existed. And the poor will always be hit the hardest.
The feds interfere more and more in the economy everyday. And we wonder why people are homeless?
1. Obama has generated an environment which promotes lower incomes and higher unemployment.
The sad part is you probably believe this. Is that what your buddies are telling you down at the country club?
Fact is it's not "Obama's policies" creating lower wages. It's cowboy capitalism entering the next phase of its natural evolution. Managers have found out that people will work harder for less, and they and shareholders get to keep their record profits. If they could do away with workers or American workers all together in favor of cheaper labor elsewhere, they would do it without blinking an eye.
Nothing more than that.
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3. There is an increased number of single parent families, due to liberal policies
Or, liberal policies have also kept 30-40 million poor children out of the population... probably also leading to the low crime rates we have today.
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It is liberal Nirvana- a large number of poor people, dependent upon the government for thier existence in exchange for votes.
It's the future promoted by people like you, who espouse policies that are putting us on the fast track to Latin America. It's what you want: Islands of wealth surrounded by seas of poor and desperate.
Re: homeless youth, etc., I also equally blame big biz conservatives and feel-good liberals for promoting illegal immigration for their own agendas, which has led to the literal importation of millions upon millions upon millions of other countrys' poor people to our shores to work for near-slave wages. (57% of households headed by at least one "immigrant" use some type of welfare program).
I would think that with dropout rates and requirwemnts in a technical society its goig to get worse. Seems its more that people are not willig to take jobs equal to their skill level or we would have streams of illegals moving in to take those jobs which are not all minimum wages either.In most areas its better money waise to use the welfare system; sadly.
Over the past decades or so, the availability and quality of data on homelessness has improved considerably, due in part to initiatives by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the US Department of Health and Human Services, the US Department of Veterans Affairs, and several nongovernmental organizations working with homeless populations. Since 2007, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development has issued an Annual Homeless Assessment Report, which reports to Congress the number of individuals and families who are homeless in the previous year, both sheltered and unsheltered,
There are no jobs. What jobs? In Florida? A service industry' type job, maybe, for some.
Manufacturing is gone from America. With it, jobs, families, a decent wage, ability to put kids in schools.
It is all a domino effect and no one wants to see it.
Over the past decades or so, the availability and quality of data on homelessness has improved considerably, due in part to initiatives by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the US Department of Health and Human Services, the US Department of Veterans Affairs, and several nongovernmental organizations working with homeless populations. Since 2007, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development has issued an Annual Homeless Assessment Report, which reports to Congress the number of individuals and families who are homeless in the previous year, both sheltered and unsheltered,
driving through parts of South Carolina, you honestly would believe you are in Mexico, people without jobs, living in small shacks etc.
Florida, also.
We also have a correlating fifty year high in US poverty levels too.
But don't worry, our president is papering over our new poverty with Food Stamps, and is busy, busy, busy, pushing ObamaCare and his green energy agenda, so all is well.
The sad part is you probably believe this. Is that what your buddies are telling you down at the country club?
Fact is it's not "Obama's policies" creating lower wages. It's cowboy capitalism entering the next phase of its natural evolution. Managers have found out that people will work harder for less, and they and shareholders get to keep their record profits. If they could do away with workers or American workers all together in favor of cheaper labor elsewhere, they would do it without blinking an eye.
Nothing more than that.
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You spelled crony capitalism wrong. Obama's the king of crony political and corporate cronyism.
I call BS on the "1 in 45 US children is homeless" stat. Not to say there aren't any homeless children but that sounds like the "1 in 5 US children go to bed hungry" propaganda that has been making the rounds for years even though obesity is rampant among low income children.
The purpose of these exaggerations is to facilitate more jobs for social workers, program directors and other high paid govt. bureaucrats with an unassailable funding source i.e "Surely you don't want children to starve or freeze to death in an alley do you, you heartless bastard??"
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