originally posted in:Secular Sevens
When I volunteer at the local homeless shelter and talk to the "hobos", I get to know of their struggle. What you do say is somewhat accurate from what I see.
To every single "hobo" I talk to when I volunteer at the shelter (Which is every single one there since my duties are to serve them dinner and take the dinner to them) twice a month, I always hear the same thing: Can't find a job, trying their hardest to find a job, and willing to do anything. Hell, they only go there for dinner and then I see some of them reading the newspaper that was purchased that day in the shelter looking at the Classifieds section.
I've only seen a few people under 18 that are homeless, the ones that I have seen are pretty miserable, but are doing their best to find some form of employment.
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Things sure have changed, I volunteered once when I was in high school and the population seemed to be divided into two camps those who were searching and they came to dinner late because that was the time the library closed, and those that were just scraping by with as little effort as possible. It was almost an exact 50/50 split if I remember correctly. Either the homeless population has become more responsible, or more responsible people are becoming homeless.