Quote of the Day, June 29, 2012
I’ve been working most of the time that I’ve been homeless but often times a person doesn’t make a living wage, they don’t make enough money to pay for their own rent …. You have bosses that are paying people a quarter of what it takes to live here [in Washington DC],” says Eric Sheptock, an advocate for the homeless who is himself homeless.–excerpted from Al-Jazeera English’s Inside Americas Story
Read More of the story to see where and how homelessness is increasingly criminalized in the United States.
