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    Trying to "manage" homelessness by performing sweeps is expensive and useless, merely moving homeless from one place to another. Housing First is an effective tool in solving the problem. A great...

    Trying to "manage" homelessness by performing sweeps is expensive and useless, merely moving homeless from one place to another. Housing First is an effective tool in solving the problem. A great essay on homelessness, "Million Dollar Murray" by Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker (2006) opened a lot of eyes about the community cost of trying to manage homelessness. Here is a link, but you may need to use your subscription or search other sources to read the entire essay. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/02/13/million-dollar-murray

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  3. Comment on The mismatch between the school day and the work day creates a child-care crisis between 3 and 5 p.m. that has parents scrambling for options in ~life

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    This is not a new situation, since the same work/school schedule has been in place for many decades. "Latchkey kids", jobs with "Mommy hours", relatives, neighbors, and after school child care -...

    This is not a new situation, since the same work/school schedule has been in place for many decades. "Latchkey kids", jobs with "Mommy hours", relatives, neighbors, and after school child care - have been solutions for millions of families. I started my own business in order to solve this problem.

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  4. Comment on Aretha Franklin gravely ill in ~music

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    Winner of 18 Grammy Awards, and a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement honoree in 1994, she became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. She was the recipient of...

    Winner of 18 Grammy Awards, and a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement honoree in 1994, she became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. She was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of Arts and the Kennedy Center Honors.

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