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Our Friends
Women and minorities are the fastest growing segments of the homeless population. They are targets of congressional efforts to reform welfare. The proposed reforms will likely contribute to an increase in homelessness among single mothers with children, both black and white, who represent the most tragic aspect of the "feminization of poverty" in America. Yet, despite strong criticisms and denunciation of the inhumane policies; despite studies which demonstrate the relationship between ecomonic policy, social policy, and poverty; and despite evidence which suggests that the end product of current reform policies aimed at ending "giveaway" programs for the most vulnerable segment of society will be widespread homelessness, American policy-makers tend to abandon the state's obligation to protect the welfare of its citizens whenever compassionate care conflicts with capitalist gain.
Marg Williams
Marg Williams is our programs coordinator. She loves the outdoors and likes to vacation in Yosemite National Park.
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Our Relatives
Some of the 20th century legislators charged with crafting policy for the elderly, poor, and homeless citizens of the 1990's are descendants of those homeless exiles from Europe. Although they and their fellow legislators have elderly parents in need of care, relatives who suffer from mental and physical disabilities and are unskilled and unable to find meaningful employment in a highly technical society, and constituents who are involved in substance abuse and domestic altercations which render them homeless, sometimes temporaily, sometimes permanently, the colonial legacy of condemnation and punishment for the homeless and vulnerable seems to guide the policy debates on welfare, health, and affirmative action.
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