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Everett

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Homeless I was homeless. For about a week. In the summer. Okay, I know that is not quite as challenging as being on the frozen January streets of a big North American city, wondering where my next meal or shelter bed will come from, but still, there was a short time when I had no home. I was between jobs and apartments. I did not plan well enough to have the funds required to get me over the hump. Like most of my major plans up to this point they had a fatal flaw: I was in charge of the planning…

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Jobless in America

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Everything That Is Wrong With America’s Economy in One Minute I don’t know about you, but as I was growing up, in 1960s and 70s America, a working person could make a decent living. The blue collar men and women of my North Philadelphia neighborhood earned enough from factory, skilled trades and service jobs to buy a small Philly rowhome, raise and feed a family, and take a few weeks vacation every year. In 2013, it is almost impossible to simply keep one’s head above water with a service or trade job. Factory jobs are no longer considered in the…

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