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		<title>The Full Scope of Homelessness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Disability benefits. Domestic violence.  Tent cities.  Homelessness cuts across many different issues, and these are just a few of them, taken from the topics addressed in this month’s In Just Times. As I wrote about in my recent Huffington Post article, homelessness affects a wide swath of the U.S. population—and the breadth and depth of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Report Shows Denial of Social Security Benefits Perpetuates Homelessness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, the Law Center released Improving Access, a new report on how bureaucratic barriers are preventing thousands of homeless Americans from accessing Social Security disability benefits that could help them get off the street. Social Security benefits, including Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), are critical to keeping people with disabilities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://homelessnesslaw.org/2012/05/new-report-shows-denial-of-social-security-benefits-perpetuates-homelessness/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=new-report-shows-denial-of-social-security-benefits-perpetuates-homelessness</link>
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		<title>Denver Reminds Us Laws Have Human Consequences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No matter how much you guard against it, there’s a part of you that gets used to human suffering. I smiled tiredly, slipping a dollar in his cup and letting my mind wander.  I was already turning away when he grasped my hand. He squeezed slightly and guided me back.  Whereas before his total person [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://homelessnesslaw.org/2012/05/denver-reminds-us-laws-have-human-consequences/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=denver-reminds-us-laws-have-human-consequences</link>
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		<title>April Showers Bring May Flowers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the early spring’s plantings start to blossom in my yard, I’ve also been appreciating that the seeds for the human right to housing, some planted years ago, have also started to bloom. In early April, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness and Department of Justice issued a groundbreaking report condemning the growing trend toward [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://homelessnesslaw.org/2012/05/april-showers-bring-may-flowers/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=april-showers-bring-may-flowers</link>
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		<title>Law Center Launches “All-In to End Homelessness” Campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, April 12, the Law Center kicked off its “All-In to End Homelessness” campaign, in partnership with American University’s School of Communication. The campaign includes a solidarity drive, asking people to pledge to go “all-in” to end homelessness.  We collected more than 500 signatures at Thursday’s event (and 200 signatures online) from people pledging [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://homelessnesslaw.org/2012/04/law-center-launches-%e2%80%9call-in-to-end-homelessness%e2%80%9d-campaign/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=law-center-launches-%25e2%2580%259call-in-to-end-homelessness%25e2%2580%259d-campaign</link>
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		<title>Time to Finish the Job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first came to Washington DC to organize a campaign for a federal response to homelessness, I never dreamt that, decades later, I’d still be fighting to end homelessness. In 1986, when I started going to Capitol Hill to persuade Congress to take action, the response was often: “we’d like to help – good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://homelessnesslaw.org/2012/04/time-to-finish-the-job/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=time-to-finish-the-job</link>
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		<title>Go “All-In to End Homelessness” This Thursday!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Join Us at American University in Washington, D.C. In partnership with American University, the Law Center will be sponsoring a rally this Thursday, from 12 – 4 pm, where you can make the Pledge to go “All-In to End Homelessness.” In partnership with American University’s School of Communication, the Law Center is sponsoring a rally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://homelessnesslaw.org/2012/04/go-%e2%80%9call-in-to-end-homelessness%e2%80%9d-this-thursday/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=go-%25e2%2580%259call-in-to-end-homelessness%25e2%2580%259d-this-thursday</link>
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		<title>Law Center Spurs Human Rights Breakthrough in Sacramento</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Law Center and its local allies have achieved an important milestone on behalf of homeless campers in Sacramento. For well over a year, campers have been forced to transport bags full of waste on a bicycle to a public restroom miles away from their tent city.  But in an unprecedented letter to Mayor Kevin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://homelessnesslaw.org/2012/03/law-center-spurs-human-rights-breakthrough-in-sacramento/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=law-center-spurs-human-rights-breakthrough-in-sacramento</link>
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		<title>Voter Suppression Pandemic Continues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Audio: NLCHP&#8217;s Andy Beres discusses voter suppression on the Rick Smith Show on March 8, 2012. Last Friday, the Law Center amended its lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s voter ID law to include charges that it illegally blocks minorities and veterans from accessing the ballot box. Under the law, homeless, poor, and other constituencies could be forced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://homelessnesslaw.org/2012/03/voter-suppression-pandemic-continues/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=voter-suppression-pandemic-continues</link>
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		<title>Homeless children shouldn&#8217;t be kicked out of school</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Across the country, children are being kicked out of school when they become homeless. It&#8217;s not something you hear talked about much.  Maybe that&#8217;s because homelessness in general is ignored in our public discourse.  This may even be the first time you&#8217;re hearing about it. Under federal law, children have the right to remain in [...]]]></description>
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