The highest unemployment rate in the United States is in one state, and that is California. Currently topping 11.5%, higher than anywhere else in the nation, California’s economic outlook remains bleak with no new start-up technologies, factories, or industrial developments to lead the way.
The largest growing demographic segment of the population are the homeless. The unemployed and the evicted are evident in city centers throughout the State.
Los Angeles’s efforts to clean-up the streets includes providing homeless citizens with an army-green module about six feet long by three feet wide. Just enough to keep a roof over head and belongings out of view.
The sidewalks of Los Angeles had recently begun overflowing with homeless people pushing shopping carts filled with possessions. Old chairs, a boom-box, assorted clothing and some food were the most common contents of the hundreds of shopping carts on the streets of LA.
The army-green module is intended to hide the homeless from those who are still employed and who complain about having to negotiate the roadways with “slow moving carts of junk”.
There is no sense of urgency amongst the homeless. There are no meetings or shopping excursions, no weddings or birthday parties. They have nothing much at all, just the grinding poverty of a circumstance they did not create.
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