| With the rare exception of a special
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| | class lives. Many thousands are simply
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| report produced by educational television
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| | the working poor. Lacking skills and
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| channels and shown sandwiched between
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| | contacts, they trudge daily to minimum
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| reruns late at night, we seldom see the
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| | wage, low level positions: motel maid,
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| faces of America's enormous homeless
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| | security guard, custodian, waitress, or
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| population. They live their street lives
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| | day labor. The minimum wage is a social
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| in decaying downtowns and slum districts,
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| | farce for a single individual, never mind
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| hidden from our daily commute between
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| | someone with children or family to
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| work and the suburbs.I live in the Los
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| | support.Can Congress or the
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| Angeles County section of Southern
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| | Administration explain how someone
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| California. Within my one county are more
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| | clearing less than $200 per week can feed
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| than 90,000 people who have nowhere to
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| | and clothe themselves and their family
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| call home. Like most of my neighbors, I
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| | and yet set aside enough money for even
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| never use public transportation or visit
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| | the cheapest apartment? Can the finest
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| the poorer areas. Unless I make a special
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| | financial minds in the country calculate
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| effort, I never see the thousands on the
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| | how to pay first and last month rent and
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| sidewalks.It is only when disaster
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| | a security deposit when there are only
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| strikes a poor area that the country sees
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| | pennies left at the end of the week?Yet
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| the face of poverty. After Andrew in
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| | President Bush moved to suspend the 1931
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| southern Florida and Katrina on the Gulf
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| | Davis-Bacon Act for the rebuilding of New
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| Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi, the
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| | Orleans. Is it his theory that the poor
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| omnipresent television cameras caught a
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| | don't deserve the protection of
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| glimpse of what it is like to be poor in
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| | prevailing wages so he can use that money
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| America. We saw the faces of the
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| | to protect them from terrorism?The poor
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| forgotten lined up in the Superdome and
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| | and the homeless don't even think about a
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| had to admit that the national dream of
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| | bomber at an airport or what's happening
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| success and a comfortable lifestyle does
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| | in the Middle East. They have more
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| not extend to everyone.There are those
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| | pressing concerns such as where is their
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| who believe that the poor bring on their
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| | next meal coming from, how can they
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| own misery. That anyone with any
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| | educate their children, and where would
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| motivation would be able to work
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| | be the safest place to spend the
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| themselves out of the mess. Certainly
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| | night.And the oil companies, with their
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| there are thousands of homeless who have
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| | already obscene profits, get a tax
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| drifted away from the larger society
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| | break.Where are we heading,
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| because of drugs or mental illness, the
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| | folks?Virginia Bola is a licensed
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| have-nots who fail to qualify for the
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| | clinical psychologist with deep interests
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| treatment and rehabilitation programs
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| | in Social Psychology and politics. She
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| established for the more fortunate.Many
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| | has performed therapeutic services for
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| thousand more are simply victims of
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| | more than 20 years and has studied the
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| domestic violence, illness, structural
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| | effects of cultural forces and employment
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| unemployment, or a series of events that
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| | on the individual.
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| devastated their former working or middle
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