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- I know that the Scott Pelley's "60 Minutes" report on homeless kids segment was very incomplete. I have photographed the support system in Florida. Food banks, giving away all the food they can carry. Food Stamps are now a 'credit card'. Thrift stors have more clothing and furnature than they can hold. Job training, social services, and shelters such as 'The Source' in Vero Beach have hot meals, showers, transportation, for families and individuals. There are many places that actually give them CASH!. I wish I could upload the photo's here...
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- This is such a total atrocity in America in this day & age. Our &)(**) government sends billions of dollars to other countries for some of the most ridiculous of reasons but we have our own children hungry and homeless...That's not all I'm approaching 60 in just a few weeks and I'm worried that I and my son and grandchildren (and we both have jobs - but the pay is equivalent to the poverty level),could end up in the same boat as this government threatens to take more of my social security that I've paid into all my working life, the premiums for SS taken out of my paycheck is tenfold more than that a private insurance premium would have been. It's time to first, keep our tax dollars at home and help Americans first! second, take away from our gov't representatives their ridiculously large lifetime salaries and lifetime benefits...they sure aren't earning it. They should receive a salary of mid income and when they're out of office their salaries and benefits end..just like what happans to the rest of us when we loose our jobs!!!
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- My wife and I just finished watching "Homeless children: the hard times generation" aired March 6, 2011. Our Sunday routine is to relax with our coffee while reading the newspaper and watching the news. Every week there are stories of special individuals who are raising funds, or getting donations of new running shoes, computers and other items to help the underprivileged children in other counties. With so many under privileged and homeless children in the United States that could benefit from these donations, it just doesn't make sense.
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- Thank you to everyone who has generously offered to help the families of the students in tonight's episode. There are several ways that you can donate. Please contact your local school and ask for the guidance counselor. She/He can make sure your donation reaches the families who are struggling. Due to confidentiality, their names can't be given out. There are struggling families in every school thoughout the United States. It would be great to see all of them receive donations.
If you are in Seminole County where the episode was filmed, you can also contact Beth Davalos, of Families in Transition, in Seminole County Public Schools. (www.scps.k12.fl.us Click on the Families in Transition link) She will make sure the donations are delivered to families in need. There were several schools represented in the episode, but all of our schools have families in need, and Beth knows who they are. I'm sure they will greatly appreciate the assistance. Thank you for reaching out to these families in their time of need. - Reply to this comment
- In the past I have been able to watch stories like this with little emotion. I could rationalize it by thinking that the parents were the problem, that they weren't motivated or that they just didn't want to work. I could seperate my feelings by believing that it was their fault. This story showed clearly that this depression is cutting deep into some of the best of us.
60 minutes, please do your part and quit quoting the so called experts and their propaganda that this is a recession and that we are in recovery. It is an economic catastrophe that will destory us all unless changes are made and made quickly.
I wonder what kind of corporate and government greed, unnecessary government regulations or just waste that caused the loss of some of these peoples jobs. Please do a story on more of that and step to the forefront and use your considerable influence to help make the changes that have to be made.
My heart goes out to these families and their children and I am not by nature the bleeding heart type. - Reply to this comment
- Please let me know what I can do to help too. Can you send the school administrations e-mail address so I can ask for specific ways people from other states can help. reply email ruthhealy@aol.com.
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- this story is so heartbreaking. politicians are so busy taking care of the rich, well we could rid ourselves of this huge problem by taxing the rich. why are we fighting to tax middle class and poor. we spend our money which only makes rich, richer, let them pay taxes, don't let banks put people out on street, don't let a storage unit sell everything these people own, what then they keep all the money and give nothing to the family they just "raped"? what has happened to us? we no longer look to help others as long as we got ours we don't care about others?? this is not the AMERICA my dad brought me up in.
I must know how to adopt one of these families ad pay for their hotel, give them food and clothes. I WILL NOT GIVE TO CHARITY, FOR SO MANY TIMES CHARITIES CEO'S JUST GET RAISES AND MONEY DOES NOT GET TO FAMILY. I WANT TO GIVE DIRECTLY TO FAMILY. - Reply to this comment
- How can we help? 60 Minutes provide follow up in order for us to help.
Food, clothing, supplies for children to stay in school, storage or motel bills...please let us know! Prefer to provide directly to families and schools. - Reply to this comment
- Scott Pelly has recaptured the 60 Minutes of three decades ago, when 60 Minutes produced and aired pieces that really mattered to Americans. This piece brought tears to this 74-year-old's eyes as Scott treated these troubled families with the utmost respect while at the same showing a part of America that really does not need to be. My one criticism of this 60 Minutes edition is that it did not juxtapose a companion piece showing the opulance enjoyed by less than two percent of Americans. It was that same two percent who fought so hard to shamefully and successfully lobby Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress to extend the obscene tax cuts for the obscenely wealthy for a another two years.
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- For those wanting to help the children featured in tonight's segment, please visit:
http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/title1/Home/FamiliesinTransition.aspx
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