Over the course of one year, 3 million Americans (1% of the entire population) will be homeless for at least one night. A graphical breakdown of their backgrounds and demographics.
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DISCUSSION: 6 Comments
This is a great way to visually compare homeless demographic groups to one another, but it raises two important questions: 1) why are these people homeless, and 2) how can homelessness be addressed? There are many answers to each question of course. Perhaps getting some of the numbers behind the numbers above would help us address homelessness, an issue I fear is only going to worsen under the Bush economy.
I agree with Decomprose-this is a great simple visual diagram and very informational.
My question is why are the mentally disabled homeless represented as upside down? I’m not sure that was necessary!
Perhaps your Assistant Publisher of GOOD can relate to the needs of the homeless by using his money for the public “GOOD” vs. using these same monies to fund his own illegal drug prescription drug habit. What a poor example from one of your publishers! Other than it being illegal, I can relate to the marijuana use as I’m sure it’s for “medicinal purposes” but the illegal prescription drug buys/use…apparently the public/gov’t supported “rehab” in 2003 didn’t work for Jr. This is a kin to good ‘ol Rushy, Mr.Always Right, Limbough!
Al Jr….CLEAN UP YOUR OWN PERSONAL ACT and start being responsible to the continuents you claim to support!
Very unnecessary and quite frankly insensitive!
Hey there Lefty: instead of bashing Al for his admitted drug use (notice he did go to rehab to get the help he needed and admitted his problem), why not focus on your spelling (continuents? what are those???) and your own personal issues with substance abuse? It’s a common enough problem, cut him some slack. Have you read this magazine yet? This group as a whole is doing a fantastic work with charities around the world and calling attention to some interesting and somewhat taboo issues. Kudos to _Good_ for speaking out against the religious right’s subversive movement against birth control. I’m glad that there is such a fascinating, well-put together magazine out there that does more than keeps us up to date on who’s dating who and what Paris is up to.
Slamming Al Jr. is not necessary. Everyone has their faults; it looks like you need to work on your prejudices.
I agree with the defense of good, although I admit I couldn’t exactly understand Lefty’s message. >_<This is a great infographic – I agree! It’s my favorite and the one I went looking for immediately when I found out GOOD graphics were on flickr. I also agree that it would be great to do another graphic that looked at common issues that lead to homelessness – I think the cycle of issues involved in being impoverished is a really important story, since most people simply assume that homeless folks are either lazy or addicted and willfully able to stop if they’d just get some “personal responsibility”. I personally don’t believe it’s that simple, as we’re in a system that does not support people. Even something about the working poor would be great.As a side note, I love that these graphics are online, but this one, even at the highest resolution, I found hard to read.