What a Thought

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This issue’s writing prompt: As America has struggled with the global market, so has Main Street. Explain how, if your job or Street Sense was not around, you would go about surviving America’s economic woes.


Without Street Sense? Wow! What a hard question to ask. I am only 23 and also homeless. If Street Sense didn’t exist I think I would be still in Southeast panhandling. Another depressing part of that thought would have to be that I could also be deceased right now if it wasn’t for the Street Sense newspaper. Although that sounds heartbreaking it is one of two realities. If Street Sense was not around, another option would be temporary jobs, and sideline day labor work. That being said I am so thankful to Jehovah God that a homeless person can empower themselves through advocating for themselves and others using the paper sales of a newspaper.  

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