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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have zero issue with supporting adults holding jobs. Is this a requirement for shelter residence? Pls verify. Otherwise, yours is the "rant".[/quote]

So if the adults don't have a job it would be good policy to force they and their families out onto the street?  How would that benefit the homeless or the city?

Or is this just about re-enforcing your sense of moral superiority?[/quote]

You claimed they would be gainfully employed. NICE backstroke.[/quote]

Nope stated something that has been widely researched and is commonly accepted - that most homeless people in fact are employed.

Again you need to get our of your paranoid mind the notion that all homeless people are drunk smelly people begging for money on the street.[/quote]

The thing is, you simply make stuff up. Please speak to the homeless families in DC. How many are employed? How will the shelter support them in this? Will the shelter require employment or another pathway to self sufficiency? Please share facts. Thank you.[/quote]

Why are you fixated on the work requirements?  I'm worried about families with children living on the street and getting sucked into a cycle of poverty and hopelessness they can't break out of.

How about this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/09/AR2010070902357.html

Please read the entire article since you seem kind of clueless (though that will do little about your paranoia and self righteousness) but here is the relevant excerpt:

3. Homeless people don't work.

According to a 2002 national study by the Urban Institute, about 45 percent of homeless adults had worked in the past 30 days -- only 14 percentage points lower than the employment rate for the general population last month. The number of working homeless would probably be even higher if "off the books" work was included. Whether scavenging for scrap metal or staffing shelters, many homeless people adopt ingenious ways to subsist.

A recent job loss is the second most common reason people say they became homeless. In a study my colleagues and I are completing, we observe a steep drop in earned income in the year prior to the onset of homelessness. Interestingly, those people who return to work show a steep recovery in earned income three years after their initial homeless spell. Our preliminary data also suggest that about a third of the chronically homeless eventually end up working, thanks, quite likely, to substance-abuse recovery.
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