If you're homeless and trying to figure out how to spend a small amount of money to best effect, this list may help. It has also proven useful to charities creating care packages for homeless people.
What to Buy if You Are Homeless
How can you tell if someone is homeless? There's no sure way but there are a lot of clues that may add up to homelessness when taken together. Knowing them can keep people living on the street safer.
How to Tell if Someone Might Be Homeless
The article discusses the possibilities for implementing cooperative initiatives as a means of transforming oppressive communities, thereby creating poverty-free societies.
Poverty Alleviation as a Cooperate Social Responsibility Issue?
Have you ever had an encounter with a homeless person and wanted to do more to help? Here are a few things that you can do throughout the year to make a difference.
5 Ways You Can Help the Homeless in Your Community
Residents of Tent City West have developed a sense of community while running their own temporary housing system inside a West Baltimore school buidling
A New Model for Helping the Homeless: Tent City West
Why do homeless people seem to avoid using emergency housing shelters? Here are some of the reasons.
Why Don't Homeless People Use Shelters?
Learn some of the most common stereotypes, myths, and misconceptions about homeless people in America. Weigh in with your opinions in the comments.
Common Stereotypes and Misconceptions About Homeless People
EBT cards allow recipients to choose the foods they will eat. A box of ready-made items takes away free choice and will truly be a handout.
Government's Harvest Box Controls What Recipients Eat
Why would the CBC put a book about homelessness in its Entertainment section?
Book About Homelessness Is Art, Hope - Not Entertainment
Being homeless is hard enough without the extra unneeded questions. Here are some things you should avoid saying.
What to Say and Not Say to a Homeless Family
Learn who the homeless people in this country are and how much our public assistance programs cost. The truth may surprise you.
Who Are the Homeless People of America?
This essay looks at how little mainstream media covers issues of poverty and the reasons why. Certain factors determine whether a conflict gets covered by the media, this essay details those factors.
Mainstream Media’s Lack of Coverage on Poverty
Six ideas to help end homelessness and an invitation to share your solutions to the problem of so many Americans being homeless. So many are veterans, children, elders, and disabled people.
Solutions to the Problem of Homelessness
Do you struggle to determine whether or not you should give money to homeless people? I did until I had this experience.
To Give or Not to Give Money
Have you ever wondered why people become homeless? This article explains just a few of the most common causes of home loss for people living in the United States. Some of them may surprise you.
Some Reasons People Become Homeless