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The homeless generally don't have paid employment I would be interested in seeing your stats. I worked while homeless. I did freelance writing and, later, resu
by Mz 9y ago
The homeless generally don't have paid employment
I would be interested in seeing your stats. I worked while homeless. I did freelance writing and, later, resume writing. I have known homeless individuals with regular jobs.
I don't know what the statistics are. But I would be very interested in seeing stats on how many/what percent of homeless have some kind of earned income, if you know of any reliable data on the topic.
(Edit: Or maybe clarify your intent. I had earned income, though no job. We could quibble at length about what constitutes earned income. For example, does recycling for money constitute earned income?)
Thanks.
- joe_the_user 9y agoClarified above. Some homeless do manage to get ordinary waged work but given the requirements of most employers, it's not surprising that these poorest people don't appear employments statistics (the canard raised by the post I was replying to). I don't have statistics and I suspect that getting statistics here is very difficult. A homeless person has little interest in answering a survey and certainly no one wants to appear homeless so just about any data source is going to be iffy.
- Mz 9y agoThanks.
- fishcolorbrick 9y agoI set up an OLAP cube for the biggest charity for the homeless in Portland, OR and in my experience no-one locally has good data on the homeless. It is a demographic which is difficult to survey.
- Mz 9y agoYes, I figured. I have had a college class on homelesness and I run a homeless blog. The OP already replied and clarified. It is all good.