Take a look at this.
- Small scale Hooverville's in California and New York.
- I remember visiting a homeless shelter last fall here in Newburgh, NY and talking to the director. He mentioned how even that summer the shelters were filling up to capacity like he had never seen before.
- The other day I was hanging out with some friends in the City of Newburgh and a guy named Cartier rolled up on a bike. He said someone had thrown it out and he fixed it up. Cartier had recently been released from upstate prison on attempted murder charges. He said he applied to 10 different jobs now that he was out but nobody wants to hire a felon. He was living under the Newburgh Beacon Bridge.
I don't really know how to connect these events, and I won't try to pass judgment. But it seems like there's something to all this, isn't there? Some silent thing which we can all see but which stays silent and moves gradually like a glacier; under the rug?
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