Paul Bachmuth, his wife, Amanda, and their children at home in The Woodlands, Tex., in October photo by Michael Stravato (the New York Times)

Unemployment Anxiety Affects Children
11/11/2009 MICHAEL LUO THE NEW YORK TIMES
Community colleges across the nation are scheduling more early morning and late night classes to accommodate students who are jobless or have been motivated to return to school by the recession. Recent high school graduates are also turning to community colleges due to the high costs of four-year institutions. Nearly every state is dealing with large influxes of students in community colleges, partly because of financial cuts to higher-education budgets.

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Record numbers of Americans struggle to get food
11/17/2009 AMY GOLDSTEIN WASHINGTON POST
Last year, nearly 50 million Americans, or one person out of every six, struggled to get food. This is the highest number of people who are finding difficulty in affording food since the government has been keeping track. A Department of Agriculture report blamed the flagging economy. The numbers indicate that access to dependable sources of adequate amounts of food is deteriorating, especially among families with children. 

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New fund will help Colorado homeless vets find housing
11/11/2009 MIKE MCPHEE DENVERPOST.COM DENVER, COLO.
The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless will announce the establishment of a new Homeless Veterans Housing Fund to support the 1,800 homeless veterans on the streets of Denver. The money will help them find housing quickly and access support services, including treatment for war-related trauma. The coalition’s president believes the fund will help the coalition reach its goal of serving double the number of veterans served last year. 

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Ohio restaurant caters to homeless
11/11/2009 DAVID YONKE THE BLADE TOLEDO, OHIO
My Brother’s Place, a Toledo restaurant, is serving lunch again after an eight-year break. In addition to serving weekday lunches to downtown workers, My Brother’s Place provides meals to the needy and homeless, jobs and job training to the unemployed and homeless on Monday evenings. This is the third incarnation of My Brother’s Place. The restaurant has hired three full-time and six part-time employees, and is working with job-training agencies to teach people a trade.

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Homelessness Moves Wisconsin Families from Suburbs to Cities
11/10/2009 WISN12 MILWAUKEE, WIS.
In today’s dire economy, more suburban Wisconsin families are finding themselves on the streets, victims of random chance and bad timing.  With nowhere else to go, they are leaving comfortable communities outside Milwaukee and making their way downtown, hoping to take advantage of services offered there.  Homeless shelters turn away dozens—up to 100—people a day.  “Homelessness doesn’t discriminate,” a shelter director said.  “There is no face to homelessness.”

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A NEEDY WOMAN SITS FOR A HAIRCUT AT CRISTIANO CORA. PHOTO BY Ozier Muhammad (The New York Times)

New York salon helps unemployed style their futures
11/09/2009 SUSAN DOMINUS THE NEW YORK TIMES
As a public service to job-seekers, Cristiano Cora studio, a high-end hair salon that normally charges $300 a cut, promised free haircuts to anyone who brought proof of unemployment. Some of the unemployed who visited the salon had not gotten a professional haircut in years. They said they hope to refurbish their images in hopes of getting an interview and landing a job.

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