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Taking the Fight Against Hunger On a Stadium Tour [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsThanks to the Rock and Wrap it Up program, good food left over from sporting events and concerts doesn't have to go to waste, "NBC Nightly News" reports. ...
Florida Homeless Advocates Claim 1st Amendment Right to Meet, Eat in Park
By Mark I. Pinsky - Politics DailyORLANDO, Fla. – The U.S. Supreme Court, in its controversial 2010 Citizens United decision, ruled that corporations enjoy the same free speech rights as individuals when it comes to political advertising. With the Court's 5-4 imprimatur, businesses, billionaires and groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce poured piles of cash into last year's mid-term elections, resulting in significant gains for Republican candidates. This week, a federal appeals court in Atlanta is considering this issue from the other end of the socio-economic spectrum: Does the First Amendment extend to ...
Former 'American Gladiator' Storm Is Homeless
By David Moye - AOL NewsFor every homeless person like Ted Williams, who rises to sudden celebrity, there is a Debbie Clark, who has experienced the heights of fame only to lose everything except her dignity. From 1991 to 1993, Clark, using the name "Storm," was one of the stars of the hit syndicated series "American Gladiators," a TV competition show that matched amateur athletes against the show's own elite team of "gladiators" with names like "Zap," "Tower" and "Laser." As "Storm," Clark participated in events like the "Assault," where contenders had 60 seconds to make it through an arena-sized obstacle course, ...
Once Homeless, Ted Williams Now Voices Optimism
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThis time, Ted Williams is ready for success. The Ohio homeless man whose "golden radio voice" propelled him off the streets to overnight fame had lost everything because of an addiction to drugs and alcohol. But now, he says he's prepared for his second chance. "This time around I have God," Williams told NBC's "Today" show this morning, just 48 hours after a video of one of his radio-ready voiceovers -- performed while panhandling on the side of a Columbus road -- went viral. A "new sense of spirituality," he said, would help him handle his sudden success. And there's a lot to handle. ...
DJ Goes Homeless for 2 Weeks -- By Choice
By David Moye - AOL News
(Oct. 22) -- A radio personality in San Diego is getting street cred with the city's homeless population -- because for the past two weeks, he's been one of them. Ever since Oct. 10, Tayari Howard, the nighttime disc jockey for Smooth Jazz 98.1, has been sleeping in a tent in between a Starbucks and a Panera restaurant. "Every night I get off work at 11 p.m. and by 11:15, 11:20, I am in the tent with no TV or radio -- just a 6-foot, 3-inch, 300-pound security guard," Howard said. For the record, Howard didn't ask for the guard. The shopping center where he is camped out insisted he ...
Banks to Underwater Homeowners: Don't Get Comfy
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Generation Homeless: The New Faces of an Old Problem
By Rita Hibbard - AOL News
SEATTLE (Oct. 19) -- Twenty-two-year-old Tony Torres sags, exhausted, onto the pavement just beyond a skate park where kids from this affluent Seattle suburb, Bellevue, flip tricks off ramps to the beat of a boombox. This is a safe place to hang out until he knows whether he'll get a bed on this night at the nearby YMCA, which donates its rec room as a shelter for young adults at night. His odds of getting a spot to throw a mat on the floor are about one in seven. Mike Kane / InvestigateWest Tony Torres, 22, sits in his room at a temporary housing unit in Seattle's University District on ...
Next Stop, Obamaville. Everybody Off!
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Opinion: Obama's Flimflam Plan to End Homelessness
By Michael Medved - AOL News(June 30) -- Last week's unveiling of the president's ambitious new "Opening Doors" program might have produced a deafening national chorus of hoots and guffaws, except for the embarrassing fact that the press paid scant attention to this sweeping initiative to end homelessness. In the midst of soaring deficits, a teetering world economy, a failing war in Afghanistan, a catastrophic oil spill, a surging Republican opposition and a chief executive with precipitously plummeting approval ratings, who could report with a straight face on a costly fresh effort that solemnly promises to "wipe out" ...
White House Unveils Plan to Fight Homelessness
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyVowing to provide access to stable housing for veterans and families with young children, the Obama administration released a strategy Tuesday to abolish homelessness among the most vulnerable citizens within a decade. The White House unveiled "Opening Doors," a "Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness," which combines the leadership resources of Congress, state and local officials, churches, charities and business to end "chronic homelessness by 2015 and among families, youth, and children by 2020." "As the most far-reaching and ambitious plan to end homelessness in our ...
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