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"The goal is to offer one-stop shopping to anyone interested in homelessness-related resources..."

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SAMHSA's Homelessness Resource Center has a wealth of information and resources available; if you're homeless, an advocate, a direct service worker or in any way interested in understanding more about homelessness and the efforts to end it, you will find something to assist you here....

Privacy?

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For some reason there are always some folks who seem to think they should be able to tell other folks what they should do and not do in their personal lives.

Chief among those are personal medical decisions, such as whether people should be able to end their own life, or refuse life sustaining medical treatment beyond a certain time, such as after higher brain function has ceased as it had in

"...24 percent of single homeless people and 47 percent of homeless adults in families were working, "

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Next time you see folks who you think are homeless, remember that one in four of them most likely is working full-time somewhere. The others may indeed have part-time jobs or have issues in their personal lives that create barriers to employment for them, but that doesn't mean they don't want a job....

Write It All Off

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Kramer: They just write it off.

Jerry: You don’t even know what a write off is, do you?

Kramer: Do you?

Geraldine Ferraro

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I’ve been thinking a lot about respect.

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