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• Babble Talk: Kids Tackling Global Poverty

  When my niece was six, she asked me why rich people didn’t just invite homeless people to live with them. It was winter in Boston, and she simply couldn’t understand why people with homes—including her own family—didn’t allow homeless people (“only the nice ones”) to sleep on their couches or in the guest bedrooms. While commending her altruistic impulse, I gingerly explained the safety concerns of inviting strangers into your home. Read More... Posted Jan 07 2009, 06:34 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with no comments Filed under: children, kids, teaching compassion, babble talk, compassion, homelessness, quotes, kids say the cutest things, cute things kids say, helping the world, global poverty, explaining homelessness to kids

• The New Homeless Middle Class

  Even though we don't know the full back story on this, it just doesn't look very good.  Santa Barbara resident Barbara Harvey is homeless for the first time in her life.  Though she has three grown children, she lives in her car with her dogs. She must have made them eat one too many servings of Spinach when they were growing up... Either that, or the recent wave of foreclosures is hitting more and more middle class families...   Read More... Posted May 27 2008, 02:31 PM by Rachael Brownell (Redsy) with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: cost of living, foreclosure, economy, recession, foreclosure rates, middle class and homeless, homeless mom, safety net, homelessness, losing houses