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Satirical essay

There are many homeless people out on the streets of the large cities in this great nation. With low unemployment rate and new jobs are being created every day, people are starting to ask why there are still homeless people in the alleys and on the sidewalks of this country. This seems to be a haunting problem even though it would be so easy for homeless people to get a job. The general requirements for applying for and keeping a job is have nice clothes to make a decent impression, a home address and some way to be reached in tight situations. That is it!
First, most homeless people spend their days hunting through trashcans and dumpsters for something of value. If they are not doing that, they are begging for spare change on street corners. Eventually, one would think that they should be able to afford a couple of respectable suits or other outfits to wear while applying and even working for a job of theirs. All they have to do is poke around a little longer or beg a little more and that job would be theirs. Keeping the clothing clean would be difficult, but manageable. If they cannot afford coins to use a laundromat, just find some large, clean puddle of water in the street to wash things in. As for cleanliness, I am sure people throw away left over deodorant or antiperspirant, soap, and other toiletries to where they can take care of the bathing problem. They also do not need to clean their hair. In fact, doing so would get rid of the natural oils that build up over time that actually hold the hairstyle in place.
Second, with all the left over money and such, they could go to one of those mailbox stores and buy themselves a mailing address. That just means they will have to cope with eating only what they find in the garbage, and not spending any of that extra cash on fast food, or healthy vegetable stuff. If they absolutely need a phone number, what is stopping any of these people from sleeping close to a pay phone? Just record the number on the back of their hand before they head out to the job interview. In addition, if they really want to impress the boss, give him the number of the pay phone nearest their favorite begging corner or alley, just in case they cannot get a hold of them at the first number. As for the commuting, all they would have to do is make sure the pay phone is not too far from business. It would also give them much more time to sleep while waiting for the paycheck. Now they must take care of the job and the finding food and drink in the twenty-four hour time period.
I am not sticking up for every single homeless person on the face of the planet; I know there are quite a few willing to spend any available penny to smoke or to get whiskey to drink. The thing is, there are a lot of people and even families willing to work for less than minimum wage if someone were to just give them a chance. However, most of us look away in shame and ignore the person offering to wash our windshield for any spare change we may have. I think scholarship programs need to be started to help these people. Not a lottery where any crack fiend off the street can get the opportunity to work, but actual screening and testing to try to see just who is willing to take that extra step. This is a problem that cannot be ignored any longer.

In the United States, homelessness had grown at a dramatic rate during the last decade.

Estimates of the number of Americans currently without a permanent home vary wildly. Advocacy groups like the National Coalition for the Homeless say that close to 3 million Americans live on the streets or in emergency and temporary shelters. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development puts the figure at 350, 000.

Yet both bureaucrats and advocates agree on one point, that is, the face of homelessness has changed radically in the past 10 years, as more and more low-income housing is mowed down in the name of progress. Some 20 years ago, says Kristen Morris, assistant director of the New York, office of the National Coalition for the Homeless, the typical “street person”was a White male who suffered from a mental illness or an addiction to drugs or alcohol. Today's homeless, however, are a more eclectic group.

More than 60 percent of the homeless today are Black, mostly single mothers with small children. More than half of them have never been homeless before. In many cases, they have been evicted form their homes, or the low-income housing in which they lived was demolished or burned down. About 60 percent of all homeless people live on some form of public assistance with an average monthly income of 210 dollars. About 20 percent are mentally ill. According to Marie Robinson who is a lawyer for the coalition for the Homeless, “There has been a real democratization of skid row”. All sorts of people have been pushed out of the housing market because of the critical shortage of affordable places to live.

As a result, homelessness has climbed to the top of the “me-generation's”short list of social concerns. But there is a great gap between concern and active involvement in the effort to solve this growing problem. For many people, the inaction is due to ignorance, not indifference. According to Ellen Rocks, who is executive director of the House of Ruth, a Washington, D. C., organization that provides shelter and other services to women who are homeless or are the victims of domestic violence, “There area a lot of people who want to get involved but don't really know how. ”

The fact is that there are many ways in which individuals can help the homeless. Yet for those people truly interested in the cause, one of the first steps is to get to know the homeless and understand how they became that way. Many advocates believe that it is important for middle-class people to get to know and reach out to the homeless and bridge the gap that exists. “Middle-class people have to learn that what is happening in America today is all-out war on the poor. Just as America once robbed the Indians of their land, today we're robbing the poor of affordable housing. ”