I traded my landlord two folding tables for a tent today. It was a good deal. I got rid of two things I didn't need and got something I might. Looks like we are nowhere near bottom and could get considerably worse.
Fed offers bleak economic outlook: The Federal Reserve cut its economic outlook for 2009 on Wednesday and warned that the United States economy would face an "unusually gradual and prolonged" period of recovery as the country struggles to climb out of a deep global downturn
10,000 Americans Going Into Foreclosure Every Day
It's Time to Treat America's Homeowners as Well as We've Been Treating Wall Street's Bankers
By Arianna Huffington
The New Depression
By Martin Jacques
The business and political elite are flying blind. This is the mother of all economic crises. It has barely started and remains completely out of control.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Email from Katrina Thanks, Kat
Hello there, I came across your website on google search. I looked through it and I just wanted to send you an email and share my homeless story.
My name is Kat and I live in my car with my boyfriend and my two dogs. Last year my boyfriend and I were kicked out of our roomates house because she was a druggie and turned her house into a crack house basically. My boyfriend and I don't do drugs at all and our roomate and us butted heads because of this a lot. We didnt have any place to go and didnt have a job at the time (we got laid off). We started looking for jobs and found one with a guy who owned an ice cream shop. He knew we were homeless and offered us to live with him and he would pay us by rent basically. Well this is around the time we also found out that I am pregnant. So we lived with our boss and he didnt pay us but just let us stay with him and we had to work 40-50 hours a week, do all the house chores and figure out a way to pay for our gas and food. Well we got food stamps which really helped. Then our boss, decides to move and gives us less than a few days notice that he needs us out to move out and sell his house. So, right now I am 5 months pregnant, still going to a community college, trying to find a job (since he closed his business and didnt pay us) and figure out how to survive in this economy. My boyfriend and I live in our car again with our 2 dogs. Our food stamps have been lowered since we have no job and no address anymore. Its been a very hard and difficult year for us, and we have been putting so many applications in to so many places and we havent heard anything back yet. We have been to a few job interviews but still havent heard anything from them. I just am so desperate for a job but who hires a girl who definitly looks pregnant?? Im so scared but I still have a little bit of hope left. My boyfriend and I are staying close and keeping each other from falling into a deep depression. We are both 21 years old and we are really trying but so many people are on a hiring freeze right now!! I pray every day that something will come up and change our lives...until then I will keep hoping!
Katrina
My mailing address is 10014 June Dr Apt 2 St. Ann MO 63074, its my boyfriends brothers address he lets us use it.
My name is Kat and I live in my car with my boyfriend and my two dogs. Last year my boyfriend and I were kicked out of our roomates house because she was a druggie and turned her house into a crack house basically. My boyfriend and I don't do drugs at all and our roomate and us butted heads because of this a lot. We didnt have any place to go and didnt have a job at the time (we got laid off). We started looking for jobs and found one with a guy who owned an ice cream shop. He knew we were homeless and offered us to live with him and he would pay us by rent basically. Well this is around the time we also found out that I am pregnant. So we lived with our boss and he didnt pay us but just let us stay with him and we had to work 40-50 hours a week, do all the house chores and figure out a way to pay for our gas and food. Well we got food stamps which really helped. Then our boss, decides to move and gives us less than a few days notice that he needs us out to move out and sell his house. So, right now I am 5 months pregnant, still going to a community college, trying to find a job (since he closed his business and didnt pay us) and figure out how to survive in this economy. My boyfriend and I live in our car again with our 2 dogs. Our food stamps have been lowered since we have no job and no address anymore. Its been a very hard and difficult year for us, and we have been putting so many applications in to so many places and we havent heard anything back yet. We have been to a few job interviews but still havent heard anything from them. I just am so desperate for a job but who hires a girl who definitly looks pregnant?? Im so scared but I still have a little bit of hope left. My boyfriend and I are staying close and keeping each other from falling into a deep depression. We are both 21 years old and we are really trying but so many people are on a hiring freeze right now!! I pray every day that something will come up and change our lives...until then I will keep hoping!
Katrina
My mailing address is 10014 June Dr Apt 2 St. Ann MO 63074, its my boyfriends brothers address he lets us use it.
Monday, February 16, 2009
GM considering Chapter 11 - Forclosure picture wins award
GM considering Chapter 11 filing, new company: report
General Motors Corp, nearing a Tuesday deadline to present a viability plan to the U.S. government, is considering as one option a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing that would create a new company, the Wall Street Journal said in its Saturday edition.
US foreclosure image is 2008 World Press Photo
A picture of an armed sheriff moving through an American home after an eviction due to a mortgage foreclosure was named World Press Photo of 2008 on Friday.
General Motors Corp, nearing a Tuesday deadline to present a viability plan to the U.S. government, is considering as one option a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing that would create a new company, the Wall Street Journal said in its Saturday edition.
US foreclosure image is 2008 World Press Photo
A picture of an armed sheriff moving through an American home after an eviction due to a mortgage foreclosure was named World Press Photo of 2008 on Friday.
Email from Sandy Re: Causes of Homelessness. Thanks Sandy!
Please add these reasons to your list of causes for homelessness:
No means of transportation
Over-qualified for available jobs
Severe housing shortage crisis (in US about 50M or more people immigrated here over the past 150 years, & there never were enough housing units because US was virgin land without housing)
Chronic poor health
Old age
Disabilities of all sorts (not just mental illness -- blind, crippled, & many more)
Low wages being offered (many homeless people work but can't afford housing of any kind -- McDonalds etc pay too little)
Orphans (both child & adults who have no financially well-off relatives or friends who can help them)
Language barriers
Lack of education thru no fault of their own (immigrants but also many Americans either lived where it wasn't available --think back to 1865 in the south -- or the prejudices & laws were meant to keep them from getting education; poverty also kept most people from getting an education)
Education itself causes poverty (they can't afford transportation or materials, no matter how small, to get an education)
Trying to be an "Entrepreneur" (most fail thru no fault of their own -- they fail only because the System is set up to cause failure (Capitalism; the wage > Ref: The Rich & Super-Rich, by Ferdinand Lundberg)
loans (which shouldn't exist because they're slavery)
Stolen identity
poor Resume (employers stick them on the bottom or just burn them without looking because of the way it looks)
Unnatural disasters (fires of entire apartment complexes (example)
Housing bubble burst (not their fault)
the present economic woes caused by things out of a person's control (all people & nations are connected financially, so it's the domino effect - caused by capitalism, the wage which is slavery)
Inability to know how to spend money "wisely" (most people, if any even the rich) don't know how to handle money)
Automobiles (inability to afford repairs & maintenance thru no fault of their own, caused by low wage offered)
expensive child care vs. low wages
Unable to marry (it's hard to find some one, period, & add to that find someone who both work & earn enough to survive)
Inability to find a roommate
Bad luck (either one time or many times in a row)
Trauma (death of child or spouse or parent; car crash, etc)
Advertisements (brainwash them to spend too much; plus people shop & spend because there's nothing else to do)
Too many loopholes to fall thru (before many social services existed, & even after they existed there's no way for most people to know about the aid from social services available, esp. if there's a language barrier)
Job discrimination
Getting fired (causes trauma) thru no fault of their own most of the time
Having the wrong friends
Getting pregnant (both in & out of wedlock -- the poor can't take it to court since they're homeless)
Going thru Foster care (at age 18 the "help" forces those children out of foster care without a penny)
Adoption (money, or lack, always causes family problems but especially between adoptive child & parents)
Crimes against a person that contributed to their becoming homeless
Getting fired by a company just before "retirement" because the company doesn't want to pay it)
ALL of these causes are from one source: THE WAGE SYSTEM which is SLAVERY. Those reasons need to be added to your list of CAUSES of homelessness. Thank you.
Sandy
No means of transportation
Over-qualified for available jobs
Severe housing shortage crisis (in US about 50M or more people immigrated here over the past 150 years, & there never were enough housing units because US was virgin land without housing)
Chronic poor health
Old age
Disabilities of all sorts (not just mental illness -- blind, crippled, & many more)
Low wages being offered (many homeless people work but can't afford housing of any kind -- McDonalds etc pay too little)
Orphans (both child & adults who have no financially well-off relatives or friends who can help them)
Language barriers
Lack of education thru no fault of their own (immigrants but also many Americans either lived where it wasn't available --think back to 1865 in the south -- or the prejudices & laws were meant to keep them from getting education; poverty also kept most people from getting an education)
Education itself causes poverty (they can't afford transportation or materials, no matter how small, to get an education)
Trying to be an "Entrepreneur" (most fail thru no fault of their own -- they fail only because the System is set up to cause failure (Capitalism; the wage > Ref: The Rich & Super-Rich, by Ferdinand Lundberg)
loans (which shouldn't exist because they're slavery)
Stolen identity
poor Resume (employers stick them on the bottom or just burn them without looking because of the way it looks)
Unnatural disasters (fires of entire apartment complexes (example)
Housing bubble burst (not their fault)
the present economic woes caused by things out of a person's control (all people & nations are connected financially, so it's the domino effect - caused by capitalism, the wage which is slavery)
Inability to know how to spend money "wisely" (most people, if any even the rich) don't know how to handle money)
Automobiles (inability to afford repairs & maintenance thru no fault of their own, caused by low wage offered)
expensive child care vs. low wages
Unable to marry (it's hard to find some one, period, & add to that find someone who both work & earn enough to survive)
Inability to find a roommate
Bad luck (either one time or many times in a row)
Trauma (death of child or spouse or parent; car crash, etc)
Advertisements (brainwash them to spend too much; plus people shop & spend because there's nothing else to do)
Too many loopholes to fall thru (before many social services existed, & even after they existed there's no way for most people to know about the aid from social services available, esp. if there's a language barrier)
Job discrimination
Getting fired (causes trauma) thru no fault of their own most of the time
Having the wrong friends
Getting pregnant (both in & out of wedlock -- the poor can't take it to court since they're homeless)
Going thru Foster care (at age 18 the "help" forces those children out of foster care without a penny)
Adoption (money, or lack, always causes family problems but especially between adoptive child & parents)
Crimes against a person that contributed to their becoming homeless
Getting fired by a company just before "retirement" because the company doesn't want to pay it)
ALL of these causes are from one source: THE WAGE SYSTEM which is SLAVERY. Those reasons need to be added to your list of CAUSES of homelessness. Thank you.
Sandy
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