This site is intended to educate the public on broad social, political and economic issues affecting low-income families. Comments made by readers herein do not represent the views or positions of the Marguerite Casey Foundation or Equal Voice, America’s Family Story, and do not constitute a recommendation for or against any specific candidate, legislation, or legislative proposal.
Users must refrain from making or posting comments that may constitute or could be viewed as lobbying or political campaigning under the U.S. federal tax laws. In addition, users must refrain from making or posting vulgar, obscene, threatening or abusive comments on this site. The website moderator reserves the right in its sole discretion, but not the responsibility, to delete or edit any user submission to this site, and/or to bar the participation by anyone who it reasonably believes to have violated these principles. Complete rules of conduct for this site are contained in the Term of Use
D.C. officials unveiled a plan Thursday to expand the number of beds available to the homeless in winter by 10 percent to ward off cases of hypothermia.
But activists feared that the increase won't be enough as District residents continue to lose jobs and families are thrown out of their homes in a troubled economy. Space is tight in the city's network of shelters in summer, when demand is typically low. The need for shelter usually spikes in winter.
Read More
No comments:
Post a Comment