>From: "Victor Milne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Citizens on the Web" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Working Homeless >Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:01:28 -0500 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-Priority: 3 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk > > "Working homeless shatter old stereotypes" - Toronto Star, Dec. 21/99 >- not in online edition Forty-four per cent of homeless people in the >United States have some sort of job according to the latest statistics >from U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In its rush to >create more billionaires, America's miracle economy of the 90's has left >a lot of people behind. Los Angeles housing activist Jeff Farber has >encountered homeless telemarketers, nursing assistants, home-care and >child-care providiers, homeless data entry clerks and computer-repair >technicians. "In Los Angeles it's $1,000 (U.S.) a month for a two >bedroom. A low-wage family of four would have to work 100 hours a week >just to pay the rent," says Farber. Sixty-seven per cent of the adults >who requested emergency food aid in 26 major American cities this year >were employed, according to a report released recently by the U.S. >Conference of Mayors. >
