White-Collar Workers Join Crowd Straining Food Banks – Bloomberg.
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My son Skylar purchased a pair of Toms Shoes for my third grandchild, Jaxon. I am not a fan of these shoes because I don’t like to be cold and they look like slippers to me. However, they are quite popular right now and the little shoes, Jaxon is only one, are pretty cute. I am a mom and a grandma so pretty is an accurate description but right on the box as I was opening them up was this statement, “With every pair you purchase, Toms will give a paid of new shoes to a child in need. One for One.” I was totally impressed. Thank you Toms for thinking of those in need. There are many in the US who have a need too. Bless you!
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By Alexandra Zavis, Los Angeles Times
July 8, 2011
The number of people seeking help from Los Angeles and Orange county food pantries continues to grow even as the economy begins to stabilize, according to figures released Thursday, and local charities are struggling to keep up with demand.
A record 330,000 residents are being served each month at the 600 pantries supplied by the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, a 73% increase from when the recession hit in 2008. Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County, which supplies about 480 charitable groups, is reaching nearly 250,000 people a month, a 70% increase.
Food Pantries: Demand up in LA and Orange County
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While the latest Web boom has minted a new crop of millionaires in Silicon Valley, hundreds of thousands of people in the area still struggle to put food on the table.
Amid high unemployment over the past three years, the number of people being served by Second Harvest, one of the Bay Area’s largest food banks, has risen 42%. Some 250,000 people in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties receive food each month from the bank—nearly one in every 10 residents.
I was just looking at this article on the Non-Profit news, when a phone call came in from a woman named Tracy who was calling from NACA. She said they are having a program this weekend from Saturday, June 24th until Wednesday, June 30th. I think it might be worth at least going to see what they are doing.
Let me know how it goes!
Michelle
Robert Woodson would probably wince if you called him a “community organizer.” That’s because for the last 30 years as president of the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, he has not spent time organizing the poor around ineffective government programs and other addictions he has been helping them become self-sufficient.
“You can’t learn anything by studying failure,” he says. “If you want to learn anything, you must study the successful.”
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The Economic Collapse
Tens of millions of American families are about to go through economic hell and most of them don’t even realize it. Most Americans don’t spend a whole lot of time thinking about things like “monetary policy” or “economic cycles”. The vast majority of people just want to be able to get up in the morning, go to work and provide for their families. Most Americans realize that things seem “harder” these days, but most of them also have faith that things will eventually get better. Unfortunately, things aren’t going to get any better. The number of good jobs continues to decline, the number of Americans losing their homes continues to go up, people are having a much more difficult time paying their bills and our federal government is drowning in debt. Sadly, this is only just the beginning.
Since the financial collapse of 2008, the Federal Reserve and the U.S. government have taken unprecedented steps to stimulate the economy. But even with all of those efforts, we are still living in an economic wasteland.
So what is going to happen when the next wave of the economic crisis hits?
During one recent interview, Peter Schiff made the following statement….
