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2010 Homeless Numbers Out

May 26, 2011 – 3:47 pm

Last year 9,130 different men and women showed up at shelters, feedings and other homeless service agencies.  This is roughly 200 people less than 2009. If that sounds like a lot, it is. Mary Frances Schafer with the Coalition for the Homeless, Inc. says the feds are surprised that a city of this size has [...]

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“Poor” is the new “Morbidly Obese”

December 22, 2009 – 2:20 pm

The next time you’re chided by a “friend” or member of your “family” because you smoke “too much” and/or eat “too many” whole rotisserie-cooked game hens, tell them that you’d stand a much greater chance of dying young if you were poor. And while you’re at it, tell ‘em science sent you: The average low-income [...]

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Nation of Fatties Goes Hungry

November 16, 2009 – 3:49 pm

Those of you familiar with the “Back to the Future” series of documentaries are probably aware of what a paradox is, wherein two diametrically opposed, contradictory realities appear to coexist in the same universe, causing much confusion and the comical raising of eyebrows. Along those lines — and minus the comedy – here’s a report from the USDA, released [...]

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KY: 4th Worst in Nation for Child Homelessness

March 10, 2009 – 2:14 pm

As if the state hasn’t topped enough depressing national rankings lists already, this latest report from the National Center on Family Homelessness ranks the Bluegrass State 46th in child homelessness rates based on population, and 42nd worst overall — even Michigan beat us, which is kind of like getting upstaged in a spelling bee by [...]

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