Study: Homeless Shelters, Food in Demand
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Many homeless shelters and soup kitchens faced with more requests for emergency services are turning people away because they lack the beds, food and money to meet the demand, says a survey from an advocacy group for low-income Americans.
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The United Nations warns of food shortages. Hospitals refuse all non-emergency care to avoid running out of medicine. Power outages are widespread, and a lack of fuel for generators threatens water supplies.
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By FELICIA THOMAS-LYNN  As a deep freeze grips the Milwaukee area with a stretch of bone- chilling temperatures, a network of homeless shelters continues its efforts to leave no one out in the cold.
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By Jake Armstrong, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Mar. 6--TRACY -- Some residents live in homes heated by ovens. Others sleep on rear patios fashioned into makeshift apartments. They pay rent to stay there.
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SEATTLE, Wash. -- The average homeless person in King County died prematurely at age 47, and most likely suffered from alcohol or substance abuse, a new study found.
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The theme from "Rocky" blares from a rickety white van that David Timothy calls his "SoupMobile." The music alerts hundreds of the homeless that it's time to eat, and in a more subtle way, tells them that they &#151; like Sylvester Stallone's boxer character, Rocky Balboa &#151; can overcome challenges.
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By Kirsten Stewart, The Salt Lake Tribune  Sep. 11--Utahns lost their food stamps last month under a new policy that  anti-hunger advocates say they would have opposed had they known about it.    That's fewer than 2 percent of the 54,750 households on food stamps in  any given month.
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Every day, a bus picks up homeless men off the streets of New York City and takes them 70 miles out into the countryside to a shelter, in a practice that has been going on quietly since the Depression, when homeless people were called Bowery bums and fresh air was the solution to just about all ills.
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By Herman Wang, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Feb. 8--Members of a committee studying Mayor Ron Littlefield's proposed  homeless services center said they want more definitive answers on what the  facility will contain.
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Social service agencies say the number of homeless vets is rising, in part because of high housing costs and gaps in pay.
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America's growing army of homeless and poor faces a desperate plight, but most are unlikely to make their voices heard in the US presidential election campaign as they struggle just to survive, advocates said.
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Low-income families eat better when given vouchers to farmers' markets.
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More than 12 million American families either didn't have enough food or worried about someone in the family going hungry last year, the Agriculture Department said Friday.
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Police and firefighters searched floor to floor at a homeless shelter yesterday after more than 200 people developed a mysterious illness during the night.
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Participants in the Minnesota Heart Survey have been eating better over the past two decades, say researchers at the University of Minnesota.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 16--CHAPEL HILL -- Plans for a downtown giving kiosk have hit another snag.   A committee formed to develop plans for the kiosk has suggested spending the money instead on an educational campaign to fight panhandling.
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The number of families who stay in homeless shelters because they do not qualify for city housing subsidies has erupted over the summer.