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Unemployment Around The World. Visually
Via: Visual Economics
Apparently, lobbyists are paying homeless people to stand in line for them. I realize this should piss me off, but on the other hand, the homeless people are at least benefiting and the corporate lobbyist gets to see the person he just screwed over. So, some homeless guy is reaping the rewards of corporate interest. Oh what a twisted world.
Via Gawker
America's Meanest Cities for Homeless
The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (NLCHP) and the National Coalition for the Homeless released a list of America’s Meanest Cities for homeless Americans based on anti-homeless laws and the way the homeless are targeted in these cities. Some of these cities are surprising because you would think, cities associated with prestigious academic institutions would work harder to help. Almost every city on this list has a prestigious college in or around it and several are known as college towns. It’s possible these cities are afraid of being seen as dangerous. I can only speak about the two cities I’ve lived in or around. First, Bradenton I would imagine their laws were stiffened in response to the strict homelessness laws in neighboring Sarasota a few years ago. St. Pete has one of the worst records on homelessness tha I can remember. The mayor, Rick Baker in 2007 directed the Sheriff’s Dept to cut up the tents of homeless people living in a particular area of the city called Tent City.
Top Ten Meanest Cities:
- 1. Los Angeles, CA
- 2. St. Petersburg. FL
- 3. Orlando, FL
- 4. Atlanta, GA
- 5. Gainesville, FL
- 6. Kalamazoo, MI
- 7. San Francisco, CA
- 8. Honolulu, HI
- 9. Bradenton, FL
- 10. Berkeley, CA
