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Working to Get Back on My Feet

Working to Get Back on My Feet Video , Min Lee, Nov 20, 2009 Editor's Note:... more

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Public Enemy Raises money for a D.C. youth shelter

Public enemy, led by Chuck D and Flavor Flav, came to D.C. November 18 in an effort to... more

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Homeless Actress

times are tough due to the economy but for some like me times were tough even when... more

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My Community is My Downfall

One young woman tells her story of getting evicted from her home, searching for new... more

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Cool Homeless Doc

Watch Man Made on Under Current.... http://currentb.ning.com/

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Rise In Homeless Children

Cnn Reports on the continuing effects of the decimation of our economy by systemic... more

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Murdered Russian Man's Body parts sold to kebab stand, police say

MOSCOW - Russian police have arrested three homeless people suspected of eating a... more

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Run Tellman Run

A modern day "Forrest Gump" is running from one coast of America to the other in order... more

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Woman, 97, has a front seat to homelessness

Bessie Mae Berger and her two sons, 60 and 62, live in a rusty 1973 Suburban. Getting... more

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Need to feed hungry families cultivates "gleaning" interest

From sea to shining sea regular joe's are stopping to unload bounties on the less... more

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My Son Saved My Life

One young woman tells her story of getting kicked out of her house at 15-years-old,... more

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Bea Arthur leaves $300K to gay youth

The actress, who died in April, included a $300,000 donation to New York's Ali Forney... more

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Teens Busted After Videos are Posted on YouTube

In early July 2008, three teenaged friends tormented a homeless man in a motel parking... more

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SUPERMAN VET WALKING

A HERO FOR HEROS

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Local Students Raise Awareness For Homelessness

Goldsboro, NC - Wayne School of Engineering Students raised more than $1600 in a day... more

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How About a Little News Coverage of the Millions of At-Risk Kids Not in a Ballon?

by Arianna Huffington

No matter what happens in the unfolding legal saga of the Heene family, the most appropriate response to the whole matter was that of Falcon Heene. He vomited. Twice. On national TV. Well, let me just say that Falcon speaks for me.

I had to stifle the same urge as I watched so much of the media devote so much of their resources to the story of the boy NOT in the balloon.

And, sure, I know that asking the media to have some sense of perspective on a story like this is like asking a dog not to bark. It's in their nature to give breathless, wall-to-wall coverage to these kinds of stories. But, even knowing this, I was shocked how little changed in the volume and tone of the coverage even after it was known the boy wasn't in the balloon. Even then, after we knew the balloon was empty, they kept running footage of the balloon, hour after hour.

As Bill Maher said on Real Time, "they're calling him Balloon Boy, which is so stupid, because the one thing we know about this kid, is that he was not in a balloon."

I find the media's obsession with these non-stories especially galling when they lead to endless agonizing over the welfare of a child -- agonizing that is sorely missing when there isn't a hot air balloon or inner tube in shark-infested waters involved.

So now that we know that Falcon is safe, how about repurposing some of that concern for, say:

-- the over 1.5 million children who are homeless.
-- the 42 percent of homeless children who are under the age of 6.
-- the one in six homeless children who suffers from an emotional problem.

It doesn't have to be wall-to-wall coverage, but how about some coverage of the 75 to 100 percent increase in the number of children who are newly homeless because of the foreclosure crisis? Or the 13 million American children living in poverty?

Not going to happen, you say? What if we built a giant balloon, put all 13 million of them in it, and just let it float away? Even better, let's just say that we did. It'll be a win-win-win. The news producers will have a giant balloon to shoot, the news anchors will have a fresh outlet for all that concern, and millions of kids in desperate need of some concern, attention, and time in the media spotlight will finally get it.by Arianna Huffington No matter what happens in the unfolding legal saga of the... more