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How We Survive: The Deepening Homeless Crisis (encore)

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Across the U.S., virtually everyone is feeling the deepening economic crunch in one way or another. Unemployment rates are soaring and homelessness is skyrocketing as the economy continues to sink. Millions of Americans are in dire straits… and stories of trying to survive the times are all too common.

On this edition, we visit with a family who lost their home and now lives inside their cramped trailer in a city parking lot. And we’ll hear how two different communities are dealing with the economic crisis by taking matters into their own hands.

Featuring:

David Clements, homeless, lives in trailer with family; Jennifer, Chloe, Yanni, Enya, and Kierlan, David’s family; Nancy Kapp, New Beginnings Counseling Center homeless outreach coordinator; Max Rameau, Take Back The Land founder; Eric Evinowskis, Pinellas Hope facilities manager; Sheila Lopez, Pinellas Catholic Charities CEO and Pinellas Hope director; Rocco Mariano, Laura Letziati, James Stockstill, Pinellas Hope clients; Marie Nadine Pierre, Take Back the Land participant; Kelly Penton, City of Miami spokesperson.

Executive Producer/Host: Tena Rubio
Producer/Co-Host: Andrew Stelzer
Mixing Engineer: Matt Fidler of “Fidler, Sound and Media”
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Associate Director: Khanh Pham
Production Coordinator: Elena Botkin-Levy
Interns: Keisha Thomas, Asma Mohseni, Patti Restaino, and Rita Daniels

For more information:

New Beginnings Counseling Center
324 East Carrillo Street, Suite C
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
805-963-7777
mail@newbeginningscounselingcenter.org
www.newbeginningscounselingcenter.org

Pinellas Hope
5726 126 Avenue North
Pinellas Park, FL 33760
727-556-6397
www.pinellashope.org

How We Survive: The Deepening Homeless Crisis

radioproject — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:00:09 +0000

From top left: 1. David and Yanni; 3. Enya and her kitten; 4. Pinellas Hope resident's bikes in front of 'casitas' used to transition clients into more stable housing; 6. Max Rameau. Source: 1-2: Blair H. Wells. 3-4: Andrew Stelzer

Featuring:

David Clements, homeless, lives in trailer with family; Jennifer, Chloe, Yanni, Enya, and Kierlan, David’s family; Nancy Kapp, New Beginnings Counseling Center homeless outreach coordinator; Max Rameau, Take Back The Land founder; Eric Evinowskis, Pinellas Hope facilities manager; Sheila Lopez, Pinellas Catholic Charities CEO and Pinellas Hope director; Rocco Mariano, Laura Letziati, James Stockstill, Pinellas Hope clients; Marie Nadine Pierre, Take Back the Land participant; Kelly Penton, City of Miami spokesperson.

Bonus audio:

Nancy Folbre (17:39)
Nancy Folbre is a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is also a blog writer for the The New York Times “Economix.” She speaks with our executive director, Lisa Rudman about the U.S. economy.

For more information:

New Beginnings Counseling Center - Santa Barbara, CA 93101

Pinellas Hope - Pinellas Park, FL

Santa Barbara Food Bank (South County) - Santa Barbara, CA

Take Back the Land - Miami, FL

Additional information:

Catholic Charities, USA – Alexandria, VA

Coalition on Homelessness in San Francisco

Council for Affordable and Rural Housing (CARH) – Alexandria, VA

Habitat for Humanity San Francisco

Homeless Resource Center

Kensington Welfare Rights Union - Philadelphia, PA

National Alliance to End Homelessness – Washington, DC

National Coalition for the Homeless – Washington, DC

National Housing Institute – Maplewood, NJ

National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty – Washington, DC

Picture the Homeless

St. Mary’s Center - Oakland, CA

Urban Institute - Washington, DC

World Hunger Year (WHY) – New York, NY

Western Regional Advocacy Project - San Francisco, CA

Music:

Dominic Balli –– “All We Need is Love”

Children Denied: Family Cap and Foster Care

radioproject — Wed, 04 May 2005 18:00:38 +0000

Guest Host Renita Pitts with grandkids. Source: Renita Pitts

Mothers on welfare in 24 states don’t receive increased benefits if they have additional children. Lawmakers said they wanted to hold down birthrates, but women on welfare say the rule’s intent is deeply misguided, and the results are harmful to women and children. On this special Welfare Radio Collaborative edition of Making Contact, we’ll explore the “family-cap” and its effect on women’s lives, as well as the studies that call it into question. We’ll also look at foster care, and how families on welfare are more at risk for losing their children.

A free listener resource packet is availble by emailing us at makingcontact@radioproject.org or by calling us (toll-free) at 800-529-5736.

Featuring:

The voices of several mothers on welfare; Toby Eastman, former Child Protective Services worker and now with Homeless Children’s Network; Diana Romero, Columbia University Department of Population and Family Health; Kim Alverenga, Women of Color Resource Center; National Center for Human Rights Education; Loretta Ross, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective.

For more information:

Homeless Children’s Network – San Francisco, CA

Columbia University – New York, New York
Department of Population and Family Health

Women of Color Resource Center - Oakland, CA

National Center for Human Rights Education - Decatur, GA

SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective – Atlanta, GA

Social Security “Reform”: Rolling Back the New Deal

radioproject — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:00:34 +0000

Ever since Franklin Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act in 1935, the program has been debated by liberals and conservatives alike. On this edition, we’ll explore the importance of the program to those often overlooked in the current debate over Social Security, like young people, and the disabled. We’ll also hear from author Thomas Frank on some of the larger historical and political issues involved.

Vanessa Swindell, kidney transplant patient and Social Security insurance recipient; Helene Steinhauser, social worker; Fanya Faul, high school student and bookstore employee; Brooks Proctor, high school student and president of Underground Republicans of Boulder, Colorado; Fernando Ramirez, high school student and board member with the United States Student Association.

This program’s producers include: Leigh Ann Caldwell, John Herndon, Justin Beck and Lisa Rudman.

For more information:

Social Security Administration - Baltimore, MD

Americans for Social Security - Washington, DC

Economic Policy Institute - Washington, DC

The National Women’s Law Center - Washington, DC

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - Washington, DC

AARP - Washington, DC

United States Student Association - Washington, DC

A Poor System: Welfare Punishing Women

radioproject — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:00:30 +0000

Policymakers have used Welfare Reform as a hot button political issue for decades. Advocates for families in poverty say the welfare system targets women of color by subjecting them to fraud investigations and harsh restrictions. On this program, from the Women’s Desk of the National Radio Project, we look at the history and attitudes behind welfare policy in the United States. We’ll hear from recipients who have experienced first-hand how the welfare system treats women like criminals for being poor. These women argue that education is a cost-effective way out of poverty.

This program is part of the Welfare Radio Collaborative, a training and production effort, in conjunction with the Women of Color Resource Center.

Featuring:

Kaaryn Gustafson, Women of Color Resource Center; Mildred Lewis, Extended Opportunity Program, Laney College; Amy Lee, Bay Area Legal Aid; Gwendolyn Mink, Smith College; Jill Duerr Berrick, University of California; Greg Gibeson, Alameda County District Attorney’s Office.

For more information:

Kaaryn Gustafson, Welfare Rights Education & Advocacy Project – Oakland, CA

Extended Opportunity Program at Laney College – Oakland, CA

Bay Area Legal Aid – Oakland, CA

Smith College

University of California, School of Social Welfare

Regulating Motherhood: Race, Class and Policy

radioproject — Wed, 09 Jan 2002 18:00:43 +0000

In the United States, it is women and children who bear the brunt of economic inequities. And some analysts believe that government programs which claim to assist low-income women are instead being used to punish them. On this program from the Women’s Desk of the National Radio Project, we discuss how drug laws, welfare reform, and the foster care system affect women and families who are low-income. We’ll also look at an innovative program that offers community-based support to women and their children.

Featuring:

Kate Kahan and Mary Caferro, Working For Equality & Economic Liberation; Jacqueline Payne, N.O.W. Legal Defense and Education Fund; Evelyn Aguilar, Children’s Protective Services; Myeshia Grice, California Youth Connection; Jana Rickerson, San Francisco Department of Human Services; Wyndi Anderson, South Carolina Advocates for Pregnant Women; Lynn Paltrow, National Advocates for Pregnant Women; Dorothy Roberts, Northwestern University, Chicago.

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Children Denied: Family Cap and Foster Care

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Social Security “Reform”: Rolling Back the New Deal

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A Poor System: Welfare Punishing Women

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Regulating Motherhood: Race, Class and Policy

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