Celebrities and Homeless Activism

Looking back over several months, we find quite a few instances where the famous and prominent in many fields have used their positions, and the fact that people pay attention to them, in order to raise both awareness and money for the homeless. Janet...

The Very Sane “Housing First” Approach

Joseph Krauss is one of the journalists who have written about the Housing First concept as practiced in a particular place. In Washington, D.C., the nonprofit organization Open Arms Housing administers a building with 16 single-occupancy apartments, three of them...

2011 Health Sleep Study

Survey Results, Observations & Recommendations Date: January 1, 2011Investigators: Richard R. Troxell & Hugh Simonich According to health authorities, people’s need for sleep varies from 5-10 hours per night. The key to the amount of sleep people need is based...

Vancouver Olympics Aftermath Studied

In Parliament of Whores, P. J. O’Rourke wrote about the homeless cleanup in Atlanta, Georgia, preparatory to the 1988 Democratic Convention. The police started hassling and arresting street people three or four days before the convention. Drifters were...

The Minimum Wage and the Big Ideas

The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) points out the unsurprising fact that the minimum wage is worth much less than it previously was worth. Its graph illustrated the value of the minimum wage since 1960, adjusted for inflation and translated into 2009...