Down on the corner by the X bus stop Lives a little homeless man on a cardboard cot.
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Never Too Late
A Living Wage: From Campuses to Colleges
For nine days in March, 26 Georgetown University students went hungry to demand a living wage for university employees.
Working by Day, Homeless at Night
For many of D.C.’s workers, looking for a job does not mean filling out applications or flipping through the want ads. For day laborers, the… Read more »
HUD’s Funding To Its Programs Increases
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently announced that it would funnel more than $1.4 billion to more than 4,400 homeless programs in 2005, marking the largest amount it has ever committed to combat homelessness in one year.
Street Success: Moses Scott
“In spite of all the ups and downs and things I’ve done to myself,” Moses Scott says, “I’ve had a beautiful life. I don’t think I would change anything about it.”
Street Politics
A look at the politics surrounding local policy
What Our Readers Are Saying
Bewildered by the Numbers Your paper is very well written and interesting for a community newspaper. I am a public policy grad student at GW… Read more »
Broadway Writer Reflects on His Homeless Past and Current Success
Mark Schoenfeld’s story is a happy one. He was once on the street, but now is the applauded co-writer of book, music and lyrics of… Read more »
The District Raises Minimum Wage
Thousands of low-wage workers in the District got a workers in the District got a pay raise with the New Year, as the minimum wage… Read more »
Widening Income Gap Sharpens Housing Crunch, Study Says
According to a recent report from the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, the gap between the cost of housing and the average income of low-wage workers… Read more »
Beggar’s Diary
A poem by David Harris depicting the experience of a beggar.
Saturday, McPherson Square
A poem depicting the way homeless people are treated by others.
Overcoming Despair
Of course everyone knows the meaning of despair; however its raw truth can only be understood if one considers a few synonyms – hopelessness, dejection,… Read more »
Book Review: Hope Dies Last by Studs Terkel
A book review of Hope Dies Last, by Studs Terkel, a renowned oral historian.
Faces of the Homeless: The Formerly Incarcerated
An article about the struggles of formerly incarcerated people in their attempts to reintegrate into society.
Homelessness in DC on the Rise: 2003 in Review
Author/Vendor Amy Levey documents the homelessness surge in D.C
The Troubles and Exploitation of Day Laborers
Last year well over one million workers were employed by two of the largest day labor companies, and over 50% of them were homeless. These… Read more »
Norton Speaks Out on Housing, Employment and Homelessness
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) is a fourth-generation Washingtonian. She is serving her seventh term in the U.S. House of Representatives. Nationally recognized as a… Read more »
A Call for Universal Living Wage
Richard Traxell discusses the necessity of a universal living wage that is made accessible to all who work.
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