CrusaderFrank
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Newsflash: Senate Republicans Block Benefits to Homeless Women Veterans : Ms Magazine Blog
Senate conservatives blocked the Homeless Women Veterans and Homeless Veterans with Children Act on Tuesday, following an objection from Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK, left), who spoke out in opposition to the bill. The $3.4 billion bill, introduced by Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), would have provided special benefits to homeless women veterans (as well as to homeless male veterans with dependent children). The defeat comes at a time when homelessness among women veterans has dramatically increased. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, the number of homeless women veterans has nearly doubled over the past ten years. The trend is even more apparent among homeless veterans under 45; one in ten is a woman. What’s more, the increase in the number of homeless women veterans has coincided with a drop in homelessness among their male counterparts, according to Peter Dougherty, director of homeless veterans programs at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
YouTube - ‪Republican Senators Blocks Homeless Veterans Bill‬‏
The bill increases spending in an already existing program. Sorry but where is this money going to come from? Oh thats right, borrow it. Borrow more to spend more.
And not many people end up homeless unless they are drug addicts or have some other serious problem. I'd like to know why there are supposedly so many homeless vets.
Funny that their boy Obama was going to withhold everyone Social Security check and they didn't say a peep
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