By Curmudgeon
Kristin Moulton has an interesting piece on the Salt Lake Tribune website this evening, illustrating just what eight years of Bush and Republican mismanagement of the economy is doing to us right here in Weber County. She reports that:
Weber County social-service providers decided Wednesday to appeal to a usually dependable source for those in need: their neighbors. United Way will make an appeal for $200,000 in emergency funding likely to be needed this winter by families just a utility or medical bill away from homelessness...."Families just a utility or medical bill away from homelessness...." The gal can write.
Since spring, shelters, food banks, the state Department of Workforce Services and low-income medical clinics have seen an explosion in need....
Beside raising a pool of cash to help those in crisis, the group asked an Ogden school-board member about using a vacant school for an overflow homeless shelter.
The article is well worth a look. And if you can afford it, dig down a little deeper than maybe you're used to to help out the United Way, the Utah Food Bank, or Catholic Community Services. It'll be a mitzvah. If there is a god watching, She'll be pleased.
Update 8/28/08 7:31 a.m. MT: Charles Trentelman covers the same story Ms. Moulton did, in a front page story in today's Standard Examiner. Trentelman's piece includes substantially more detail.
