While putting together the Poverty Challenge, the committee that helped organize the event was asked to provide some “first-hand accounts” of living in poverty and homelessness to be put on this blog. The following came to us from a young woman who was at one time a runaway youth and is now grown up and [...]
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Personal Experience
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Poverty Challenge, Day Three
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For those of you participating in the Poverty Challenge, you may have had a rough Day Two with the start of the poverty budget. And Day One probably feels like a million years ago.
I know, for me, that’s how it feels. I am the AmeriCorps staff for the Homeless Alliance. For those who are not [...]