Program Helps Homeless Vets in Denver

By sarajean on 3/14/10 9:36pm
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If there’s a specific job news that truly breaks my heart, it’s news of people losing their homes or having to simply live on the street due to lack of a job. It’s sad whether it’s a man, woman, or child, and it’s something that we truly have the power to fix. According to the latest Mother Jones magazine, the $14 trillion Wall Street Bailout would have easily bought a home for every homeless American—which would have cost $878 billion, leaving plenty to spare.

And we treat our homeless people so horribly. I hear people berate the homeless so much, but when I studied them through interviews with StandUp for Kids, actual homeless people, and did research for homeless projects years ago, I learned that many homeless people are children who have been abused and people with mental illnesses. That isn’t a call for berating people; it’s a cry for help.

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Denver Job Report

By dubayns on 10/29/09 9:31pm
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Denver is another great example of a city whose unemployment rate is lower than the nation average.  In August 2009, Denver was reporting a 7.7% unemployment rate.  In one short moth, it was down to 7.1%.  This is nearly twice as high as the figures for Denver unemployment only a year and a half earlier.  But Denver has been able to beat back many of the overwhelmingly negative effects of the recession in recent months.    This is good news for those who live in the Denver area, but it’s quite a shift away from the norm that has been experienced throughout most of the rest of the US.  The reasons for the large gap between the nation average and the Denver Metro area’s unemployment rate are complex and manifold.DenverDenver

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