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live as a. so. i say i've got it set up. the eyes or have knowledge how do you know. my name is called alexandra fifty one years old and i'm homeless in new york city since two thousand and eight there is a r.'s that have knowledge there are. going to have to have a lot of that to us is the dollar subject on a good day at the big three hunch but this is a see ourselves up into eighteen hours straight up and down up and down on my feet .
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arbet i'm just. a music teacher. of geology so. i smoke sixty cigarettes a day. a closer. i'm in the force troops but suit up of the system that is all about profit it is human nature. well coming from a family of eight and poverty when i was going to school i used to have to wear two to pay and still to hold one pair of pants i was poor i was so poor that i wanted
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to did most of the out of the whole the poverty you know i wanted to make a better life from the stuff i do in life quality. i hated quality i made a vow to must have the money ever got to the place where i could make some money interest weyl i would do that. is very nice people did a lot of security. two
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or three the forms although some may see me because i'm going to end them. out of. people don't like journalists like this you know the main. business on this series the whole these sort of numbers is going to be in the as many. different people who are here for different reasons. lost a job loss or. whatever excuse they come down here to get themselves you know. i
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think the fundamental problem that we all face and then whatever situation the pharmacist's a like a fad like a community like a lot like a family a lack of support around you. say listen a lot like a lot of other american cities. in some ways it's still very segregated. got a lot of people that it's not enough to pay for a place to live. or for neighborhoods. all the areas that we go to where
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a lot of people almost stay. this used to be that they almost can't appear. out of the city the city toward. a few people with their tents caught on fire and. let's do it. i wish there were a better word. being home us because i think that's not the only problem that some people have. whether you have a home or you're not there are nice people and sweet people and they have a home where you are jerks and there are people that are violent aggressive whether you have a home or not you still people still like the same. real food costs. all over. cars in the jungle carts.
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and you have rice and. chicken the rice in special bowls. but i usually eat pizza because the dollar slices to the cheap i don't see a lot of stuff. like the limit of rice rice fiber as an older guy you know it would be sweet i need that kind of food to eat. my vegetables because the vegetables have item is in them you know i'm going to c.v.s. every day we're going to floor. centrum for fifty you know i'm not. going to go through. the list.
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city. police. please leave. me feel just a. little sleepy in the finite. limit . to say ok just. let me have. a medium size t.v. like this you need the size to. get to three or should. fish this eat like you know i have to use the baffle like. it doesn't work that way you know. full well the trouble with.
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. i think. i was volunteering with a group that had food drug and eyes i jumped in and started volunteering at a table and taking care of my jeans stuff a friend of mine here in st louis had a salon and she gave me some really expensive shampoo and it was like you know forty dollars a bottle. i gave it to this gentleman i said here this is a really expensive shampoo and he said thank you but i got i don't know where to use it and it was just so embarrassed and ashamed i was so excited about passing out shampoo to someone but i didn't think it was far enough that they would have no where to use it and so i got to thinking that if we make food trucks and you know put kitchens inside of a truck why can't we put showers inside of a truck and kind of started the whole process from there that they could see you couldn't see again. about about a week. ago if they did. prosecution
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will need to become almost. a full design. where you push off the threat of fines somebody known plus you do i mean yeah i mean i mean did our political pressure on that god you've. told to security jennifer knows when to pull your bundled up business models here with my american corporations jadhav was incomplete please sold on couldn't matilda's it as an abuse she controls on the scene and the solution. lies up an association. i noticed when he saw some dogs it is just really really came to an investigative
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north korea's history this to be seventeen years we are one of the only few countries that has seventeen years of history of diplomatic relations with them we are. you know mutineer free status country and this policy is working for us and we're trying to communicate you know this denuclearized you know situation may contribute much spitzer to their security then the. nuclear you know progress of food. and. fracking gave americans a lot of new job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year truck so i chose to drive truck people rush to
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a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like the gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story. ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here and just slow down so much they lost their jobs got laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality. when i was ten years old i discovered i could seen a little bit and didn't know how many so some guys in a neighborhood told me how to harmonize and we formed a group my brother nine a couple more guys got out and we did the local talent shows in the schools and in the nightclubs in memphis.
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blues the local star talent you know in the city of memphis. police told everybody else's stuff you know the guys who already had records that we were so good they're still you know so today we have to come out and work so hard so they gave us the first thing with our families and we used. to step in you know movie so i'm just like. and then i would do it all the easier it's always impossible. to say something like the song is all heard. oh somebody that you speak. to somebody needs to. be
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of this is on the breakfast rescue mission where the largest free service provider of meals in philadelphia where the only free service provider breakfast in the entire city. with their four hundred meals a day no matter what always. that includes breakfast lunch and dinner. to move move move move move move move move move move move the rude move and also we serve about one hundred eighty all every single night we just need
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a place to sleep move every single bed in this room that currently has a pillow on it is actually a physical person who has reserved the. tonight so as you can see we really are almost completely full. sunday breakfast rescue mission is one hundred thirty nine years old so there were actually quite a few homeless individuals in philadelphia at the time it was even way before the great depression yet there was a very large homeless epidemic in philadelphia. we don't receive any government funding so that means that we're completely independent of the strings that would come along with accepting any money from the government. we do this because we don't necessarily want the strings but also if there is a giant budget cuts that like there were a few years ago we actually don't get affected because we have our entire revenue
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stream from individuals who are donating us money instead of. through something that is so easily attained changeable like. policy. and. so in the past few years in america we've had quite a difficult time with passing our budget that means that we've actually had a few weeks where our government shuts down because. we just can't get it passed. that does become quite a problem for people who are relying on that money.
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i got to come from a city on twenty billion dollars surplus for for a while housing has come off and the. only thing i see the bills here is motel. i live on the street to a lot of homes. but to take it off if there was some of my fellow citizens would step up and demand that government officials put it into this is spend money in the right place to give people wall street because at some point you have to help people help themselves.
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a lot of it is just. the unfortunate fact that most people in philadelphia are only about two paychecks away from homelessness so that means you don't have a job for four weeks and then all of a sudden you're going to be homeless because you are literally living from paycheck to paycheck you need that next job in order to continue paying rent and if you don't pay rent then you will be evicted. from my perspective i really believe that the route to homelessness in philadelphia is the fact that. there is a very high population below the poverty line. a lot of people if you lose two paychecks and that's not going to be a big deal but in philadelphia that is an extremely big deal for about forty
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percent of the population. anyone can become homeless a lot of people become homeless because of some sort of catastrophic event in their life maybe medical bill was just too high or a fire in their house maybe a divorce or something like that could could potentially cause homelessness. in the world where the over the border. are you know there's a you know there are all of that so i wrote again and over. the city. i was born bruce willis' your college graduate. of two masters at
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a bachelor's degree. restaurant is in school. so for seventeen years of my life. ex-military. my wife best in their breast cancer at six thousand six a part of god with her. i got very lonely started the forces started committing suicide attempts. so i just really didn't see a draw it's all a jelly basis. and developed a very bad drug habit and mental problem by.
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boy i'm not suited off for them that's all for when. the drug programs don't want me because of my mental health history i see file. well of course so low i mean i actually become extremely violent when i have to be . done want to get my life back together i'm tired of the on the street i've been doing this over a long time i really want to help i had a lot of suicide steps and get. back to god with extra each demo aspect of god. i'm trying to be the best person i can be a second at a time a david time so it was easy i'm used to. sometimes i mess up on the
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mistakes you know but i need help and i don't watch i do about myself arse. i understand what they're going through and i can make their life a little bit more comfortable become the face of the homeless and have a platform in the us for the homeless and then let them know that is really all self is left of self-esteem because it's really not about me anymore it's all about you know what can i do to make life better for somebody else having that experience myself there's a place captivates and then for. just the thought. i want to be a. great. feeling . when i wanna be. catching
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the whole make this manufacture consent instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the crime and merry go round listen we don't want. to ignore middle of the room signals. from the real news group. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.
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i'm not going to let them violate the nuclear agreement so we're going to terminate a break but we're going to pull out president. nuclear missile treaty with russia accusing it of violating the moscow this weekend says should washington withdraw it would be a major blow to global security. news of the week grieving friends and relatives who said of the twenty victims of the college shooting a bomb attack in crimea one of the such massacres in russia's history. saudi arabia punishments this weekend of the.
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