7/1/09

Map out your local homeless before they do

With the seasons changing as they do each year, the migration due to weather and job scarcity increases to more temperate areas like Jacksonville.

I had contact with two different families, one coming from Seattle and another from Boston, both having the same issues of inability to find work as well as preparing for another hard winter affecting family members' health problems.

Although the agencies in the area attempt to assist as much as possible, there's the masses still unaccounted for that are off the scale. Meal lines, labor pool lines, medical clinics, all of them are already beginning to see the increases during the hours of operation that otherwise go ignored.

Until someone gets offended at what's outside their front door regularly.

I'd give it another month before more of the uneducated business owners downtown start throwing up the idea of barcode scanner usage on the homeless again, similar to what was proposed to fingerprinting for food five years ago.

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