FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Re: Fw: Homeless children

[Mary Ann Lundquist (maryann]

I heard a story on NPR a few weeks ago that said one in four children in
Michigan is living at or below the poverty line. As you can well imagine all
of the issues of poverty come with it. This a terrible state of affairs in a
rich county.

Mary Ann Lundquist

-----Original Message-----
From: Carol Koepp [mailto:carolkoepp [at] comcast.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 7:10 AM
To: Mary Ann Lundquist
Cc: FUS Social Action talk
Subject: [sa-talk] Fw: Homeless children


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Jerry Edwards 
To: Heidi Johnson 
Cc: Carol Koepp 
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 9:33 PM
Subject: Homeless children


      Heidi,
      Tonight's (Tuesday 31 March) News Hour with Jim Lehrer had a very
interesting, but distressing article on homeless children, and how schools
end up having to serve as social workers with their students.  Focus was on
one school in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
      Here is the link http://www.pbs.org/newshour/
      However, according to the site, tonight's video is not yet available.
      Incidentally, Carol and I attended a meeting of the PEACE Foundation
in North Minneapolis, and learned a shocking statistic--that 1 in 6 school
students are homeless!  So we have the problem in a big way here.
      Regards,
      Jerry Edwards 

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