We’ve stood witness to homelessness all our lives. In the 1950s we stared at “bums” — alcoholics usually confined to America’s skid rows. Earlier, the Depression and the Dust Bowl rendered whole families homeless.Today, homelessness has become ubiquitous. Wealth disparity and income inequality combine with gentrification and untreated mental illness to spread homelessness across class lines and demographics.
How do you interact with the homeless in your world? Through your car window or with handouts on the street? Do you work in homeless aid?
Have you or a friend or family member ever been homeless? And what vision do you have for reducing the scourge of homelessness?
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Do you think of yourself as a perfectionist, always striving to get things exactly right? Do you become frustrated when things go awry and grow impatient with the imperfections of others?
From early in life we are warned not to talk to strangers and “stranger danger” may be drilled into our consciousness. And in today’s political climate it may seem a realistic warning with hate crimes and xenophobia on the rise.
October is National Library Month, a time to celebrate libraries!
In 1935 the Roosevelt administration and Congress established that “… employees shall have the right to engage in strikes and other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining…”