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JDPriestly

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5. Thanks for posting this.

Thu Jan 1, 2015, 12:11 AM

Jan 2015

I worked with homeless people for a number of years. That was about 20 years ago. When I see the homeless of today, I am shocked at their ages. It is just my very subjective impression, but I think that the homeless today are a much older population than the homeless of the late 1980s and early 1990s. It's scary.

And the discussion about reducing Social Security benefits or needs-testing them is very frightening because the elderly can barely make it or not make it at all on the Social Security benefits of today.

This is a very bad situation in California, but even in the Midwest, it is extremely difficult for a senior to get by on only say a benefit of $900 or less per month.

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Thanks for posting this. JDPriestly Jan 2015 #5

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Yes. Thanks so much. JDPriestly Jan 2015 #9

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