How much difference can one little newspaper make in your life? The answer lies in the hands of your friendly neighborhood vendor, who will be cradling the latest edition of Street Roots starting at 9 a.m. Friday. Here’s what your eyes will soon be feasting upon:
What we don’t know: The streets claim lives every year, so why aren’t we paying better attention? Amanda Waldroupe reports on how the lack of information on the health and morbidity of people on the streets is costing us - in lives as well as federal funding to do something about it.
Money, representation at stake when Census hits the streets: As workers prepare for the 2010 Census, Amanda Waldroupe looks at the preparation involved in counting people on the street, a process loaded with obstacles.
Happy (legal) campers: Keith Heath who coordinates homeless campers in Eugene talks about the program’s successes and challenges. The program is one of the examples the city of Portland is reviewing as it considers loosening its own guidelines on camping for the homeless.
Lawsuit pushes Social Security to drop ‘unknowing flight’ policy: The feds have cut hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities from assistance because of minor, decades old warrants, pushing many people to the streets. Not any more.
Plus insight from Heather Lyons, pointed commentary from the Mental Health Association of Portland, and street sass from Julie McCurdy from her Diaries of the Disenfranchised. That and so much more that you’ll want to get an extra for the office. Thanks for your support!