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Can you imagine a plan that actually gets homeless people off of the streets and into gainful employment? Philip Mangano, executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, traveled to West Virginia last week to encourage Mountain State cities to draft 10-year proposals to accomplish just that.
People become homeless for a variety of reasons, he said. Many were turned out of mental institutions but not given follow-up services to keep them on stabilizing medications. People coming out of jails or prison have nowhere to go. Foster children leaving foster homes at 18 are unable to return to their birth families and unable to make it on their own. Forty years ago, he said, an 18- year-old could get a minimum-wage job and afford a two-bedroom apartment. That's not the case today.See the full content of this document
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Decades of efforts to help homeless people have not solved the problem, Mangano said. People need more than just serv...
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