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Shelter

Mar 2002Chance that a homeless-shelter resident in a major U.S. city holds a full- or part-time job: 1 in 5
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U.S. Conference of Mayors (Washington)

Apr 1998Ratio of the average amount a U.S. family spent on food, clothing, and shelter last year to what it spent on taxes: 3:4
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Tax Foundation (Washington)

January 9, 2005The U.S. killed as many as fourteen people in one family when it bombed the wrong house in northern Iraq,
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The Los Angeles Times

December 19, 2003 Homelessness and hunger were on the rise in American cities.
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New York Times

April 1, 2003 Belgium's parliament was taking steps to dismiss a war-crimes claim against President George Bush the elder which was filed last month by seven Iraqi families whose relatives were killed in the 1991 American bombing of a civilian bomb shelter.
January 14, 2003 A United Nations report entitled “Likely Humanitarian Scenarios” estimated that an American invasion of Iraq will result in some 500,000 casualties and about 900,000 refugees, who will require food and shelter; up to 3 million Iraqis could require “therapeutic feeding.” The U.S. military admitted that it has spammed thousands of Iraqis with email messages urging them to defy Saddam Hussein.
July 30, 2002 Scientists announced that an enormous asteroid may hit earth on February 1, 2019, potentially destroying a continent and reducing the planet to Dark Age conditions; despite the collision's very low odds, dozens of people in England were moved to pay a Welsh businessman $1,500 each for shelter in subterranean caves.
August 14, 2001 India closed 15 shelters in Erwadi, where crazy people were kept near a Muslim shrine, presumably hoping for some kind of miracle; 27 were killed recently in a fire because they were chained to poles.

December 2009

THE GENERAL ELECTRIC SUPERFRAUD
Why the Hudson River Will Never Run Clean
By David Gargill

THE MASTER OF SPIN BOLDAK
Undercover with Afghanistan’s Drug-Trafficking Border Police
By Matthieu Aikins

MERMAID FEVER
A story by Steven Millhauser

UNDERSTANDING OBAMACARE
By Luke Mitchell

Also: Dave Hickey and Wendell Berry