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As the mortgage crisis cuts deep, real estate firms say more than one million Americans may lose their homes to foreclosure this year.
In August alone, some 300 thousand were served with foreclosure warnings, as unemployment figures stubbornly hover near 10 percent. Anastasiya Churkina reports on how a camp outside New York has become a place some people now reluctantly call home.
There are similar tent cities all over the US and police sometimes go into these tent towns with box cutters to rip up the tents to displace the homeless.
In Florida the 'compassionate conservative legislature' passed a law that will allow the state to hire retired judges to open special courts to process more home foreclosures.
Rightardia wonders what the folks in the tent city would think about those $100,000 a year Bush tax cuts the GOP wants for millionaires and billionaires?
First Posted: 11-22-09 07:42 PM | Updated: 11-22-09 11:44 PM
Rightardia comment: The right wing will tell you about the welfare state in the US, but that has been gone since the Aid to Families with Dependent Children. In 1996, President Bill Clinton negotiated with the Republican-controlled Congress passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act
which drastically remade the program.
Among other changes, a lifetime
limit of five years was imposed for the receipt of benefits, and the
newly-limited nature of the replacement program was reinforced by
calling AFDC's successor Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Many Americans continue to refer to TANF as "welfare."
We've all read the disturbing statistics in the last few weeks. More than three million homeless people in America at any given time, including 1.5 million children. Six million seniors don't have enough to eat and 1.7 million children don't know where their next meal is coming from.
Poverty, joblessness, hunger and homelessness are rampant in America, to an extent not seen since the Great Depression. So, how come our lawmakers are not in crisis mode?
According to Diane Nilan, the 59-year-old founder and president of HEAR US, it's because these people live and work in relative obscurity. Homeless couples, families and children, aren't the visible homeless we see sleeping on the street corner or begging for change, she says. They're working individuals who've fallen on hard times; and they're living among us, all over the country.
In 2005, Nilan sold her house and car, and bought an RV. Over the next eight months, she drove over 20,000 miles through 34 states with her video camera. She conducted 75 interviews with homeless families across the country, ultimately culminating in the documentary series "My Own Four Walls."
Her goal: to wake up "clueless" congressmen to this problem and start a serious discussion on how America can do more to help those struggling to find shelter.
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