Friday, January 16, 2015

New GOP Policy will kick thousands of Mentally Ill Homeless People onto the streets

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/terrible-gop-policy-thatll-kick-thousands-more-mentally-ill-homeless-people-out?akid=12692.294211.CiIvAp&rd=1&src=newsletter1030376&t=4

Will escalating Republican attacks on Social Security disability benefits cause an increase in homeless people across America? Quite possibly, say advocates for disabled and mentally ill Americans, citing the growing attacks on the Social Security Disability Insurance program in Congress and on the presidential trail. GOP threats to curtail spending on Social Security have many worried that tens of thousands of people could be pushed into the streets, primarily because they would either lose access to subsized housing or could not afford rent.

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