Hunger, family homelessness on the rise in the US

Homelessness and Hunger of US Families

Want to donate toys? 714-863-6058

You Are Special hands out toys to low income families every Christmas.  As you are aware, many food banks and community outreach programs are struggling but we believe the Lord is faithful. If you have any toys or gift cards you would like to donate please contact us.We are in the Orange County CA area. 3526 E. Chapman Ave. Orange, CA 92869.

Blessings,

Michelle Hensley and the YAS team!

Want to donate a Turkey? Right here! 714-863-6058

YAS has been out at the local Stater Bros and Ralph’s collecting food for tomorrows Thanksgiving dinner giveaway to the 700 families. We need 4oo more turkeys by tomorrow. If you want to donate, please let YAS know. The address is 3526 E. Chapman Ave.  The cross streets are Chapman and Prospect behind the Carl’s Jr. There will be a turkey drop off. Thank you!

Skylar giving out a community flyer....

Andrew at the local Ralph's

Filling up the van with all the food donated

The Church full of Thanksgiving Food

Taylor loading the Van

The City of Orange, Tustin and Santa Ana community responded well!

Linda sharing the request with the community.

One of the Tables in front of Stater Bros.

Kim and Abby were outstanding at collecting food!

All of us who collected food for the low-income and those out of work were very blessed by the response in our community. The City of Orange, Santa Ana and Tustin responded to the need. It inspired many of us to continue to help those in need. Thank you!

~You Are Special Team

OC man gives 10,000 to South LA church

November 20, 2009 |  4:02 pm

Los Angeles Times-Ruben Vives

An Orange County businessman donated $10,000 today to Pilgrim Community Church in South Los Angeles, where gusty winds blew a 90-foot pine tree onto the roof of the small church, destroying the building.

The donation was delivered about 11 a.m. by Pastor Matt Olthoff of the Mariners Church in Newport Beach. A church member made the donation but requested anonymity, Olthoff said.

Pilgrim church member Lorraine Cook-Curry, whose grandfather the Rev. Henry Cook founded the small, white church, accepted the money.

Some great news!

Los Angeles-area leaders urged to better coordinate food programs

With an estimated 1 million residents struggling to put food on the table, a coalition creates a blueprint to address the problem. But one group said better utilization of a federal program is key.

By Duke HelfandNovember 24, 2009

 

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US income gap widens in recession

Income gap widens as poor take hit in recession

Census: Income falls for all groups, but those at bottom feel worst effect

updated 1 hour, 16 minutes ago

WASHINGTON – The recession has hit middle-income and poor families hardest, widening the economic gap between the richest and poorest Americans as rippling job layoffs ravaged household budgets.

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Poverty hits 1 in 8 Americans

By Joseph Weber (Contact)

About 2.5 million Americans slipped below the poverty line as recession and layoffs hammered the economy last year, driving poverty to its highest level since 1998, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday.

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Food is Power

Published on Monday, September 7, 2009 by TruthDig.com

Food Is Power and the Powerful Are Poisoning Us

by Chris Hedges

Our most potent political weapon is food. If we take back our agriculture, if we buy and raise produce locally, we can begin to break the grip of corporations that control a food system as fragile, unsafe and destined for collapse as our financial system. If we continue to allow corporations to determine what we eat, as well as how food is harvested and distributed, then we will become captive to rising prices and shortages and increasingly dependent on cheap, mass-produced food filled with sugar and fat. Food, along with energy, will be the most pressing issue of our age. And if we do not build alternative food networks soon, the social and political ramifications of shortages and hunger will be devastating.

Food is Power and the Powerful is poisoning it

Hidden Pockets of Elderly experiencing poverty

Hidden pockets of elderly said to be in poverty

‘Still many millions of older people on the edge,’ AARP president says

Simon Norwood, a construction worker who hasn’t found work in months, poses in a garage apartment belonging to a friend in Little Rock, Ark.

updated 9:46 a.m. PT, Fri., Sept . 4, 2009

WASHINGTON – The poverty rate among older Americans could be nearly twice as high as the traditional 10 percent level, according to a revision of a half-century-old formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations in the cost of living.

Hidden Pockets of Elderly

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