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Home care aides not getting paid
Many people in Pauline Konrath's situation live in a nursing home. At 85, she has dementia and Parkinson's disease and uses a wheelchair. But she doesn't live in a nursing home because her son, Joe, moved her in with his family. It's not an easy...Tags: Interior Policy, Government Health Care, Accounting and Auditing, Alzheimer's Disease, Social Services
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Can Chicago end homelessness?
A little more than a decade ago, Chicago's strategy for fighting homelessness mainly involved stopgap measures like pointing people to a temporary bed in a shelter and giving directions to a soup kitchen. But then city officials, with the help of...
Tags: Government, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, Public Officials, Religion and Belief, Alcohol Addiction
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Bill Rosendahl, happy warrior
Robert Kennedy was a young Bill Rosendahl's hope for the White House, but Kennedy's rival, Hubert Humphrey, practiced the "happy warrior" style of politics that represents the principles Rosendahl has embraced. As he leaves the Los Angeles City Council...
Tags: Medical Marijuana Therapy, U.S. Congress, Television, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues
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City to raze homeless encampment near JFX
Venus Wiles would rather sleep in a tent stuffed with blankets and all her worldly possessions on the side of the Jones Falls Expressway with her boyfriend, Michael Spence, than stay the night in an emergency shelter. The encampment — a...
Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Sex Crimes, Mary Pat Clarke, Vincent de Paul, Social Issues
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Homeless encampment an issue at City Hall
Homeless advocates and a city councilwoman sharply criticized Monday a Rawlings-Blake administration plan to remove an encampment of about a dozen homeless people this week from under the Interstate 83 overpass in central Baltimore. But administration...
Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Dundalk, Social Issues, Mary Pat Clarke, Rochelle Spector
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L.A. to ask high court to overturn ruling on homeless' belongings
L.A. NOWThe city of Los Angeles is scheduled Thursday to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower-court ruling preventing the random seizure and destruction of belongings that homeless people leave temporarily unattended on public sidewalks. If the court... -
'Hold Fast,' Blue Balliett's new children's book, explores shelter life
Where to begin in addressing the most pressing needs of the children of homeless families, whose members lack necessities most people take for granted? Do not underestimate the ability of a mystery story to lift and empower even these children, whose...
Tags: Authors, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Tribune, Family, Harold Washington Library Center
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Homelessness on the agenda
Members of Costa Mesa faith-based groups met Friday afternoon to discuss what progress the city and the Churches Consortium have made in addressing homelessness in the past two years. They also discussed goals for 2013. The Churches Consortium, an...Tags: Religion and Belief, Belief and Faith, Social Issues
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Persistent strain of TB claims victims on L.A.'s skid row
Public health officials have launched a new, coordinated attack to contain a persistent outbreak of tuberculosis on downtown Los Angeles' skid row, including a search for more than 4,500 people who may have been exposed to the disease. The Centers for...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Safety at Work, Health Organizations, Social Issues
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Mike Bonin in Council District 11
Los Angeles City Council District 11 begins at the bluffs of Pacific Palisades and crosses the coral tree-lined median of San Vicente Boulevard. It includes Westchester bungalows in the shadow of jets rumbling into LAX, and the homeless in Venice who...
Tags: Bill Rosendahl, United Way , Rentals, Finance, Social Issues
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Downtown L.A. tuberculosis outbreak prompts CDC response
L.A. NOWThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is dispatching scientists to Los Angeles to mount a new attack on an outbreak of tuberculosis on skid row. Health workers have identified about 4,650 people who were probably exposed and are trying...... -
Tuberculosis outbreak in downtown L.A. sparks federal effort
L.A. NOWPublic health officials have launched a new, coordinated effort to contain a persistent outbreak of tuberculosis in downtown L.A.’s skid row, including searching for more than 4,500 people who may have been exposed to the disease. The Centers for...
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