Spending hike sought to help end veterans homelessness | McClatchy Darren Spencer a former homeless veteran and his 18yearold son Lamont Spencer pose in their Tacoma Washington apartment Wednesday April 4 2012 | Lui Kit …
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The community living and working to the east of Seattle U will learn more Monday night about a plan to create 18 units of “transitional” housing for military veterans. CHS reported on the plan to provide services for the veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at the East Spring facility earlier this year…
Groups decry food stamp cuts to pay for teachers
Advocates for the poor are sharply criticizing a bill championed by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., that will give states $26 billion for education and health programs – including more than $500 million for Washington state…
Source: http://blog.seattlepi.com
Veteran nourishes the homeless with food, words of hope..
Amos Allen recently gave out 50 gift bags to the homeless, filled with toiletries, food and a Bible, paid for out of his own pocket.
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Sen. Sessions Wants To Cut Food Stamp Program, Claiming It Has ‘Surged Out Of Control’
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is pushing a new amendment that would make it more difficult for people to receive food stamps by restricting eligibility requirements and eliminating a planned $9 billion funding increase for the program…
Source: http://thinkprogress.org
Wash. To End Food Stamps For Legal Immigrants
One program they hope to save is the state’s food–stamp program for … The state’s food–stamp program was created 13 years ago in response to cuts to the … Nearly 14000 low–income people in Washington use the state …
Source: http://www.kuow.org
Reform cuts off 30,000 Michigan students’ food stamps
College students in Michigan have a new worry as they return to classes this fall–what to eat. Under Michigan’s liberal rules, college students, a group that is normally disqualified..
Source: http://www.catholic.org
GOP Deficit Reduction Plan: Cut Food Stamps
The Republican Study Committee, the House GOP’s conservative caucus, is lobbying party leaders to include big cuts to food stamps, Medicaid …
Source: http://motherjones.com
Homeless veterans are target of new housing initiative
Making a transition to civilian life after duty as a US Coast Guard seaman who boarded ships in the Persian Gulf looking for weapons of mass destruction was not easy for Christopher McDonald.
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State posts large drop in homeless numbers
Besides the overall homeless population, the reported number of chronic homeless, homeless veterans, unsheltered homeless and homeless families in Arizona all fell faster than the national percentages in those categories, according to the report.
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