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‘Homeless Like Me’ Project Catches Media’s Attention

‘Homeless Like Me’ Project Catches Media’s Attention

By Bob Plain on December 2, 2012

If any good came from my Thanksgiving weekend Homeless Like Me project, it might be that it focused some attention on the people without homes rather than homelessness as a social ill or what some call the homeless industrial complex. Tim White hosted an excellent conversation about it on Newsmakers this weekend. (The segment on [...]

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