Manitou Springs, Colorado is a metaphysical mecca replete with natural mineral springs, eclectic shops, and a diverse population. It also harbors a noticeable homeless community. Wanting to learn more about this, some friends and I decided to spend time with the Manitou Springs homeless. We wanted to gain insight into how they live and interact with those […]
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I was parking on Boulder Street the other day to go and have a coffee with Eric Stephenson and a woman said to me as I went toward the meter, “Make sure you put enough in. They’ll really get you on this street.” I thanked her but then saw she was going into a store
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In the country’s fight against poverty, LIFT, a non-profit organization, effortlessly works to institute a new universal standard that will hopefully endure. Located in six major cities (Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.) across the country, it has 100,000 members. The organization assists poverty stricken people by partnering them with advocates
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In the 1980s, Jossy Eyre volunteered at a Denver homeless shelter. She began to realize that although that the shelter provided many essential needs, people needed a different type of support to change their lives permanently. In 1989, Eyre bought 500 dollars’ worth of beans and employed two homeless women to sell the beans, thus
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Unlike many children here in America, my earliest memories are of Bucharest, Romania. Memories of homelessness and poverty are forever etched into my mind. I will never forget what it was like to live in a concrete house that flooded with cockroaches as soon as the lights went out or the time when my then
Taking Responsibility for Welfare Read More »