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MIDLOTHIAN, Va. , Dec. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Getloaded, a leading logistics freight matching website, recently sent a team of volunteers to help connect homeless adults in Richmond, VA with valuable medical and social services at a unique national service event. Project Homeless Connect is an extraordinary program that mobilizes dozens of service providers to relocate their operations to a centralized location for a day to provide free, dedicated aid to hundreds of homeless...

Medzilla Reports: In November the nation saw an important drop in the country's unemployment rate, signaling the continued steady improvement of the overall economic situation (bls.gov, 12/7/2012). In spite of pundits' allegations that job numbers would show lower than expected additions because of Hurricane Sandy, 146,000 new positions were created and the unemployment rate fell down even further, to 7.7% (http://money.cnn.com, 12/7/2012). Seattle, WA (PRWEB) December 18, 2012...

Organization is urging lawmakers and Americans not to ease up on efforts to help homeless veterans despite the slight decrease in their numbers. Utica, NY (PRWEB) December 14, 2012 Feed Our Vets, a nonprofit organization dedicated to stocking food pantries across the nation in the battle against hunger among U.S. veterans, is urging lawmakers and Americans not to ease up on efforts to help homeless veterans despite the slight decrease in their numbers. A new annual report on homelessness...

CityRoof users can now rate food bank or shelters on a 5-star scale, and give written evaluations for each location as well. Each food bank or homeless shelter’s ranking will be the average score of every review. Users will additionally be able to judge the helpfulness of each review, and are also given the option to check in or upload photos of the facility. Seattle, WA (PRWEB) December 13, 2012 CityRoof (http://www.cityroof.org), a homeless social network that connects homeless people...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Representing 400,000 senior citizen supporters across America, RetireSafe President Thair Phillips today slammed the continued discussion of using a chained CPI and a resulting "chained COLA" for Social Security and military retiree benefits. "It will chain seniors to poverty," Phillips said. "The chained CPI and the chained COLA cheats older Americans through an insidious process of understating inflation for them, thus making...

CHICAGO, Dec. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- 'Tis the season for cheer and generosity, and GrubHub, the nation's number one food ordering service, analyzed two years of data to determine if the holiday spirit had any influence on takeout tipping. Despite current economic discourse, year-over-year tipping data shows GrubHub diners are being as generous with their 2012 holiday tips as they were during the 2011 holiday season(i), with the average holiday tip hovering between 15-17 percent...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following statement is from Marie Lopez Rogers, president of the National League of Cities, and mayor of Avondale, AZ in response to today's unemployment report: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081022/NLCLOGO) "Today's unemployment report shows the country moving in the right direction, though with too slow of a pace. This slow growth is reason enough to explore every possibility to avoid the fiscal cliff. "Local...

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Detroit's housing market started off 2012 on a rough note, with home prices in the Motor City sitting 31% lower than what they were in 2000. But 11 months later, Detroit has some of the fastest-growing home prices in the country. So, what should you keep your eye on as we move into 2013? (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121206/CG25480) 1. Home pricesDetroit's home prices have been going up for the past 15 months, and the...

The All in One Mortgage Lenders teams up with HOPE and has volunteered to go to Miami Beach to help the homeless community. Miami Beach, Florida (PRWEB) December 05, 2012 After a week of hard work, The All in One Mortgage Lenders team does not stop there. Saturday, December 8th, 2012, the AIO team will head over to the streets of Miami Beach in front of the Miami Beach Community Church to help the homeless. Eduardo Fernandez, proud owner of AIO, believes in giving back to the community...

While most children are looking forward to getting gifts during the upcoming holiday season, it is worth noting that one in five children live in poverty. Poverty is a major risk factor for children's development and deep poverty is linked to a range of physical-biological, cognitive-academic, and social-emotional problems. These problems persist into adulthood. Poverty also contributes to a growing health and academic achievement gap, declining college attendance and graduation rates, and an...