Opinion

The following is excerpted from MedScape:   COMMENTARY:  Censoring the CDC Is Scary and Crazy, Says Ethicist Arthur L. Caplan, PhD.  December 18, 2017.  In Medscape   What Kind of Government Bans Legitimate Words? On Friday, December 15, the Washington Post reported that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had been banned from …

Trump Administration Attempts Censoring Center for Disease Control’s Use of Words Read More »

“More people are living and dying, miserable and filthy, on our sidewalks, parks and canyons… Most of the suffering is unnecessary. “From 2007 (when counting methods were standardized) to 2015, the nation’s overall number of unsheltered homeless people fell 32 percent to 173,268 people. Over the same eight years, the number increased 24 percent in San …

Dan McSwain tackles our response To Homelessness in the SD Union Tribune Read More »

“In 2001, according to the Employment Policy Institute, a liberal think tank in Washing, workers with undergraduate degrees (but not graduate degrees) earned, on average, $20.05 an hour; last year they earned $29.55 an hour” (1) “In 2007, 5.5 per cent of college graduates under the age of twenty-five were out of work. Today the …

Education and Income: the correlation is sadly flattening. Read More »

I know this doesn’t have to do much with therapy, but I wanted to share this. Utah gives homeless people their own home. The program, called Housing First, started In 2005. Many temporary homeless have suffered economic dislocation, but of course many chronic homeless  have psychological problems and/or substance abuse issues. Putting someone into permanent …

The best way to end homelessness is to give homeless people a home. Read More »