If he’d had the time after meeting American captains of industry in Seattle and Barack Obama at the White House, Chinese President Xi Jinping might have ducked out at the close of his United Nations appearance and into a New York movie theater to check on how China’s other soft power ambassadors its movies, not its pandas are playing to American audiences.Struggling to get off
By Dave Gahary
LAKEWOOD, N.J. One of the more biting ironies of recession-plagued America is the drama unfolding in the suburban town of Lakewood, New Jersey, where the homeless in that Ocean County township are being forced to defend themselves not just against the elements and regular police harassment, but against the powerful Orthodox Jewish community intent on stripping the last ounce of dignity from these down-on-their-luck Americans.
Volunteer Lisa Ferrara is present when Lakewood Township police officers enter Tent City to evict a resident in his 70s, whose shelter was demolished.
The razing of the outdoor homeless shelter is being done as thousands of Orthodox Jews violate federal housing laws by excluding non-Jews from Section 8 developments, while the government fails to act.
9 Million College-Educated Adults Received Government Assistance
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Roughly nine million college-educated adults received government assistance in 2017, the United States Census Bureau has reported. The majority of adult recipients of the government programs investigated Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; Supplemental Security Income; Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children; and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families had only a high school degree or less.
Educational attainment varied across programs. In some programs, roughly one-third of recipients had attended at least some college. People with a bachelor’s degree made up 10 percent of WIC recipients, 7.9 percent of SSI recipients, 7.6 percent of SNAP recipients and 5.5 percent of TANF recipients.
Mason Crawford, a Columbia resident, said he resonates with these troubles.
âI mean, it feels pretty hopeless sometimes, like seeing what s out there. And there s not a ton of houses on the market right now,â Crawford said. âWe re working hard to find what we like but the more we get shot down, the less secure we feel in that decision.â
More Missourians are experiencing this feeling as the demand for real estate from out-of-staters is rising.
U-Haul said in their research of migration patterns that Missouri is seventh out of all states for people moving into the state.
Ashley Isby, another Columbia resident looking for a home, said itâs hard enough to compete with people for homes in Missouri.