March 26, 2010
Friday Round-Up: This week in the news
- Report finds rise in DC poverty to nearly 1 in 5 residents http://bit.ly/9coAOw
- Homelessness puts women at increased risk for rape and sexual assault http://bit.ly/cfLj3E
- 12-yr-old begins a 2,478-mile “March Across America” to raise money and awareness of the plight of homeless kids http://tinyurl.com/ykz9ksr Read more about Zack Bonnor and his inspirational journey here: http://cot.ag/94tMPF
- Here are two interesting commentarys on TANF’s inability to sufficiently provide assistance to survivors of domestic violence. http://tinyurl.com/yd7wej5 and http://tinyurl.com/yktswev
- The Criminalization of homelessness persists with proposed sit-lie laws in San Francisco: http://bit.ly/98A2Cu
- “You don’t let [homelessness] define you. You define it.” The Finish Line Is Just the Beginning for Homeless Runners. http://tinyurl.change.org/pqPzM
- The number of people living on New York’s streets and subways soared 34 percent in a year, signaling a setback in one of the city’s most intractable problems http://nyti.ms/cPZ6yq