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Todd Wolfson, Media Mobilizing Project | 12.22.2009
On Monday people across the city remembered the eight-seven souls that died in this last year either living on the streets or in shelters. Eight-seven people! This is a dramatic rise from the previous year and it is shameful.  It is shameful of the Nutter administration, which has closed our homeless cafe's, the last refuge for those of us without homes in times of unbearable bone-chilling weather. It is shameful of the federal government, which in a time of economic crisis, chooses to bail out banks and looks the other way when it comes to the dire LIFE AND DEATH services of people that are struggling to survive. And most of all it is a shame on our free market system which allows companies like AIG to prosper, giving away absurd amounts of money in bonuses--that would make sizable dents in the deficit this city is trying to bridge. 
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