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Friday, 21 November 2014 00:00

Interview with hunger striker resisting Ft. Lauderdale’s homeless hate laws

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Activist Jillian Pim

The mayor of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Jack Seiler, has drawn international outrage in recent weeks for a new law banning the sharing of food with the poor and homeless. After further criminalizing homeless people and people in poverty in October, he and the City Commission then began persecuting those who seek to help them.

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Wednesday, 12 November 2014 00:00

Arnold Abbott, the 90-year-old chef to the homeless, may be headed back to court in battle with Fort Lauderdale

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Arnold Abbott, the 90-year-old chef to the homeless, may be headed back to court in battle with Fort Lauderdale

Looks like the case of Arnold Abbott, the 90-year-old who ran afoul of Fort Lauderdale’s laws about feeding the homeless, is headed back to Broward court.

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Wednesday, 19 November 2014 00:00

I, Too, Am One of the Estimated 22,000 Homeless Children in New York

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A child rests her head on the table as some homeless people have their lunch at the LA Mission's annual Thanksgiving meal.
I used to dread it when people at school asked me where I live or if we could hang out at my place. I would try to give my schoolmates a general response, maybe the name of a neighborhood, but they always pressed for more. I've been homeless on and off for most of my life. I've lived in New York City shelters twice for extended periods of time. Most of the other times my mother and I bounced from house to house of friends and relatives.
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Wednesday, 19 November 2014 00:00

One in 30 US Children Are Homeless as Rates Rise in 31 States, Report Finds

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Transition House, a homeless shelter in Santa Barbara, California. The state ranked poorly in an analysis of homelessness.
One in 30 American children are homeless, according to a new state-by-state report that finds racial disparities, increasing poverty and domestic violence responsible for the historic high. According to the report released on Monday by the National Center on Family Homelessness, child homelessness increased in 31 states and the District of Columbia. Nearly 2.5 million children experienced homelessness in the US in 2013, an 8% rise nationally from 2012.
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Sunday, 16 November 2014 00:00

Sequestration’s Rising Toll: 100,000 Fewer Low-Income Families Have Housing Vouchers

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Sequestration’s Rising Toll: 100,000 Fewer Low-Income Families Have Housing Vouchers
Following the sequestration funding cuts in 2013, most state and local housing agencies had no choice but to sharply reduce the number of families receiving housing vouchers. By December 2013, agencies were assisting about 70,000 fewer families than they had a year earlier, and the cuts continued to deepen during the first half of 2014: by June, agencies were assisting approximately 100,000 fewer families.
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Tuesday, 11 November 2014 00:00

Good Samaritan's next needed step

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Good Samaritan's next needed step

Anold Abbott's life mission is to feed the homeless. For decades, he's organized pop-up soup kitchens in church parking lots, public parks and on Fort Lauderdale's famous beach. But following his latest test of wills with City Hall, he's now known as the 90-year-old Good Samaritan who got cited — not arrested — for defying a new ordinance that regulates outdoor food lines for the homeless.

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Sunday, 09 November 2014 00:00

Florida charity worker man, 90, defies police orders as he continues to hand out food to homeless

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Abbott and a group of volunteers were feeding the homeless in a public parking lot next to the beach when he was issued a summons to appear in court for violating an ordinance that limits where charitable groups can feed the homeless on public property

Despite being charged with violating a new law by feeding the homeless in South Florida, 90-year-old Arnold Abbott said he's not deterred and even went back out to serve more food at a public park. 

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