Volume 45, Number 18 · November 19, 1998
Hungry and Homeless
By Louis Lowenstein
Every night of the year, no matter what the weather, two Coalition for the Homeless food vans travel around Manhattan distributing hot meals to people in the street—more than seven hundred meals every night, 250,000 a year. Business has been strong recently, particularly late in the month when welfare checks give out. How can that be? 'We don't see the homeless anymore,' friends say. Times are good, unemployment down. Who else could be out there but the mentally ill and addicts?
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