New nationwide data released by the U.S. Census Bureau show that there were more people living in poverty in 2009 than any other year since they started keeping track in 1959.
Governor Paterson has vetoed legislation that would have eased rent burdens for poor New Yorkers living with AIDS, many of them formerly-homeless. And the pundits who urged him to do so should shoulder some of the blame.
On Friday, September 10, 2010, Capicu Poetry, God's Funky Children, and Xmental University got together at Notice Lounge in Williamsburg Brooklyn to raise money for Project: Back to School.
Fifth-grader Olivia Oldham asks fellow students to pitch in and help homeless kids.