Thanks for your thoughtful and informed (and literate!) replies to my questions: I appreciate it.
Regarding women's refuges, if funding has been cut back resulting in closures I'll bet that as a result there will be countless women and their children in the category of "hidden homeless" as there are in Australia: either staying in violent relationships, living in their cars, couch surfing, moving into unsatisfactory relationships as an alternative to their kids going into care because they have nowhere safe to live.
In Australia there are periodic melodramatic "exposures" by tabloid TV, radio shock jocks and/or self-righteous politicians of all persuasions about welfare "bludgers" rorting the system, but in my experience that's far less common than the bureaucratic process making it unnecessarily difficult or impossible for claimants to get what they're entitled to. And of course, any money rorted in the welfare system pales into insignificance when compared to the tax rorts of the filthy rich and the perks of poliicians.
I gave money + food to a homeless guy. Is that normal?
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Thanks for your thoughtful and informed (and literate!) replies to my questions: I appreciate it.
Regarding women's refuges, if funding has been cut back resulting in closures I'll bet that as a result there will be countless women and their children in the category of "hidden homeless" as there are in Australia: either staying in violent relationships, living in their cars, couch surfing, moving into unsatisfactory relationships as an alternative to their kids going into care because they have nowhere safe to live.
In Australia there are periodic melodramatic "exposures" by tabloid TV, radio shock jocks and/or self-righteous politicians of all persuasions about welfare "bludgers" rorting the system, but in my experience that's far less common than the bureaucratic process making it unnecessarily difficult or impossible for claimants to get what they're entitled to. And of course, any money rorted in the welfare system pales into insignificance when compared to the tax rorts of the filthy rich and the perks of poliicians.