New York's Homeless Epidemic | Unreported World 

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Facts.

Because they can get a job if they want 15 dollars a hour

The city gets 3 billion - did you miss the part about the corruption

@Nai Somar You sound Like a Parent

That’s cos skyscrapers will get the developers lots of money, but helping the homes less is losing money 🥲

Truth!

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That's the truth.

The majority of the new construction is for low income people. Include all of the methadone clinics being built, and senior living developments, the city is only looking out for those who've been receiving handouts all their lives.

​@nunyabidnezz703 Basically what you said I was homeless in NYC for 7 1/2 years, shelter and on the trains. Tried to go to college and all that, day to was rough. dudes get thrown into the garbage if they are homeless here. And yeah, childless women can work too

dont pick on her we are all sinners.

She has no compassion selfish monster

Man you can tell that you have never been here. There are homeless on every corner, every subway you go in there is a beggar, every street there is someone sleeping on it. They stink and most are half crazy or high on anything they can get, why the hell would I want to sit next to one let alone talk to one? Especially in New York where everyone is here to work. If you aren’t here to work all day then you have to leave.

Its incredible how entitled we are all living in North America when most of the world doesn't share anything close to the same standards. Yes, many of these people have made mistakes and lack responsibility for their actions, but the general ostracization many face from "normal" society probably makes cheap avenues of pleasure in drugs and alcohol all the more appealing to cope (especially when the baseline income needed to participate is so astronomically high in many places). We all need to do better to take care of one another. Put yourself in their shoes, and realize that many were in positions where small mistakes cost them dearly- many of us make massive mistakes but have family, job or a house to fall back on, some others don't have that. Have some sympathy

She doesn’t NEED to talk to them because they talk to you as your walking past and say things that make you feel unsafe. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been approached over drugs by people are are clearly not with it.

corruption best solved with increased funding and transparent avenues of filing complaints. but i think the lack of funding is probably the biggest problem.

@@TESkyrimizer can also be solved with sufficient oversight and HARSH punishments for transgression.

YES.... Same in California same in Oregon and that's why these people are staying on the streets and the corrupt make sure of it so they can keep their jobs

👍🏽 Right, so -called JOBS being created for those pushing papers and “administrating” while absolutely NOTHING positive or effective is being done for homeless

Or the pockets of those deciding who gets what. I’d be looking into who knows who and follow the money.

Freaking Inhumane Scam

Wow! Sad and Infuriating.

The whole country is an industrial complex it’s disgusting

Quite a racket / pyramid scheme

Sounds like Russia really. So sad

There is no any help in homeless shelters

@Believe on Jesus Christ for Eternal Life~John 3:16 Trying to compare one group with another is irrelevant. You don't understand causality, causes, and prior causes. Your beliefs are flawed. You are making the excuses, not him! Not others. Your insight is nil. Your history is totally and completely irrelevant. And your lack of insight is shared by many and therefore lack the intellectual wherewithal to offer rational solutions. An excuse is something other than the truth. You just don't want to be honest of history and causation.

Not “ come to “ that is bad English it’s “ I have visited”

@@bricejonesjones3092 that’s not how you write a sentence

He maybe have a whole lot of Heart, but he is puting out there false logic and stir up racial hate! What he said around 8:26 has no base in science what so ever!! He is just stiring shit up, because obviously he had prejudices ..

Because it's caused primarily by mental illness or drug abuse!

@@jordanbaldwin8463 The drugs and mental problems are caused by the homelessness, not the other way around.

Exactly and even if it was mental health that just reveals more crqppy qualities about our state of being. People will go into debts trying to get their mental health figured out or never can then can't hold down a job. It's a vicious cycle.

" All homeless are insane" is a perception that occurs because the visible homeless are the schizos and addicts yelling on street corners. The person holding down a job or two while sleeping in their car is not seen and counted as homeless.

As far as I understand pretty many homeless people having a FULL TIME job can't afford a place to live, how come???

@@user-kp2pl6dn2d , wages don't fit the cost of living.

@@user-kp2pl6dn2d because what they earn is not enough to fulfill their basic needs!

In 1986 i went to london on my own from n.ireland i had about £270 left in pocket and gat a job within 2 days heathrow airport was bed bathroom washing facilities i dressed in my best while roaming the airport this went on for a month till i had enough to rent a room but it tought me a lot i know from having that £270 not to waste it or time to get work as fast as i could OR IT WOULD OF BEEN FOR REAL LIVING ON THE STREET THE AIRPORT POLICE WERE NOT STUPID THEY KNEW I WAS WORKING TO GET ON THE LADDER BUT NEVER WUESTIONED ME I THINK THEY RECGONISED MY EFFORT AND TURNED A BLIND EYE

@@user-kp2pl6dn2d Have you ever lived in NY? Do you know how much rent cost? How much utilities cost?

There are, but most are scams. For example, the "Ready, Willing and Able" program from an organization called The Doe Fund helps homeless and ex-convicts by employing them to clean streets around major thoroughfares. They do this by signing lucrative contracts with Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) which are groups of business owners that run stores on the throughfares (i.e. 34th Street), but the org subtracts rent from the men's wages, meaning they make sub-minimum wage and pay rent to sleep in a dorm in a shelter that would otherwise be free. The family that run the Doe Fund all make 6-7 figures from the BID contracts IIRC.

Or how about the programs that are in place not pocket government money.

In some countries there is no homeless crisis. But there are slum areas or the cheap apartments are just as bad as being homeless.

I went to University of Toronto, now I'm homeless in a NYC shelter. Life is weird

Seniors in Toronto are homeless?

@@missf4681 the right question would be 'are there seniors in Toronto who are homeless,' and the answer to that is an absolute yes

@@chinny5500 good luck buddy

You must be doing something right and good. People get themselves in trouble because they are doing something wrong, unhealthy, or bad. It is because of ignorance ? We need people out there educating them right.

You're one of the fortunate in S A. I guess you don't watch BI Phakathi. On his channel there are a lot of heart breaking stories of the homeless. He helps white and black. The saddest ones are the elderly. Get well soon.

That's heavy I just told some people yesterday that we are bless even in the trying times to be greatful were you now in all around in life

SA is in a real mess too. Come to China and save yourself.

Good Luck, There are way better places in the USA than NY

Good Luck i have moved from New York to i'm really happy now

You will have good luck soon

@@AlexStudio0610 most places you move to you need a vehicle. In Brooklyn you don't unless you like paying parking tickets. Around where I live there are so many cars parked on the street. Yet there are four bus lines that pass here, two in front my building, and two different subway lines within 10 minutes walk. Yet I see cars being towed every day. I used to own a car when I had to work in the middle of the night or had jobs out at JFK. These vehicles by me are parked all day. Many of those people were born in an era where owning a vehicle was prestigious.

Texas is so much cheaper

the american dream turned into a nightmare.

@@TheDutchPathFinder1 you get what you work for. 💯

Same here

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He won't pay a penny for that.lofl

I guess theoretically he has medical debt, though the hospital would never expect him to actually pay. They’ll get solidarity payments from the government for uncompensated care. It’s not nearly as much as private insurance would pay for the same treatment though.

Ok I will.

Some people even if they have housing can't live there, they can't manage the day to day problems of paying the bills, that's why they have shelters too. All this has to be worked out its not easy, and above all they are not supposed to refuse anyone

@@beverleylumb8048 That seems like the hard part since there are some really violent people out there that make the shelters unsafe for the other residents. If they can't reject them then they pretty much can run the show there. But on top of that it seems like there's other inhumane things going on and some of the shelter administrators are crooked and not doing their jobs.

Nothing new there, profiteering off the poor.

It's very similar to the unemployment scenario in the UK. Unemployed are seen as 'clients' and there are many 'agencies' willing to take you in for help. When you sign up with them - you are worth a price. There is always industry in misery, it seems.

Profiteering in poverty is the lifeline of capitalism. Without it, the system would collapse. Wanna rid us from poverty? Kill capitalism.

It will never subside. It might be time to kick out capitalism

Gonna get worse when the eviction moratoriums end and unemployment benefits ending soon

Humankind huh wow so damn sad

@@leonhenry4861 yeah but Americans are terrified of socialism so what's the solution?..... 🤔☹️

Me too.. I was in tears

What town do you live in?

You're complaining on a computer screen lol

Lot of mouths to feed. The food my get is donated. Most is near exploration. I got tons of bread that was moldy. It happens. I never once though ill of the people trying to feed the homeless.

better than dirt cookies they eat in africa

@@onengkusumah2905 bingo

@@onengkusumah2905 So what you are saying is, the should send the bad food to africa? Whataboutism at its finest What has your comment to do with this video? Bad food is bad mkay... Doesnt matter if it is worse somewhere else... If its bad, its bad...

You are an example of beauty

They should make Shams in charge of the citys funding for NYC. He's a great advocate 👍

The activist guy: a perpetual victim that looks about 50 years old, complains about everything and how the city had denied him everything in life . You wonder why he is still in NY if its that bad. And nobody ever asked him if he ever had a job. And the crocodile tears are better than Chuck Shumer's always pow, pow, pitiful wow is me victim mentality. I'm not buying it one bit.. but the show was comical and interesting content to watch.

@@stevethomas5209 What have you done?

@@surfhappens202 Well I never plaid victim if that's what your asking.

dont start worshipping any people, they will let you down. worship God.

This is an activist news show. The black lady from the hotel may have had legitimate objections to the homeless guys' presence, such as physical threats, noise, or unsanitary behavior, but she was either not questioned (or her complaints were left on the cutting room floor).

The people who are suffering do so because they don't stick together. Americans are very self centered, extremely petty and confrontational. Being an asshole is often seen as a virtue. When things fall apart for the individual then they suddenly go from talking all tough and independent like Nino Brown to grovelling like Oliver Twist. We must stop with the BS American cavalier act.

I'm waiting too. I'm African. Black Americans are moving to Africa doing the same thing the Western media does. Showing one problem and blowing it out of proportion to make it seem like the problem is over the whole African country they're in. They have the same mindset as their Western counterparts. It's about time we all turn the tables on them and expose the horrors of their communities. The self-righteousness is mind boggling. There are serious problems everywhere in the world, even in the almighty USA

I'm from the Middle East but living in the UK. The UK has a very similar situation - homelessness, extreme poverty, people starving to death. I have experienced it myself. I had to experience starvation for several years, it was so bad I now know I could have died at any moment, in fact I should have been in hospital on a drip. That was some years ago but I am facing the same again soon due to a very corrupt boss that has hounded me out of my job. Being a girl, I had to exprience the added issue of so-called "welfare organizations" for the poor, the homeless etc, trying to force me into providing favors of a certain kind in return for help - when I refused, I got made out to be a "troublemaker" and it was claimed that I had allegedly "refused help". Having lived in several countries and traveled to many more, I can honestly say that both the US and the UK are far, far more corrupt than even Pakistan, a country well known for its corruption. The difference here is that corruption gets denied, which means that the rest of the world thinks it's not happening here. As you guys rightly say, they make it out here that the US and the UK are so great and that the rest of the world is "one big slum" when in fact the worst, and most shocking, poverty can be found here, together with other issues such as illiteracy, drug addiction, alcoholism, and dependency on prescription drugs. Doctors push antidepressants on the poor to keep them knocked out so they don't complain. Here in the UK, the poor get treated like garbage - literally. This is worse here than in the US because of the class system here, whereby a person's standing in society is determined by how much their house is worth. A person who is living in rented accommodation, especially in public (social) housing, is automatically assumed to be stupid, lazy, a troublemaker and a criminal - and they get treated everywhere accordingly. They get lied to, their basic human rights denied, they get driven into suicide, they get abused and insulted everywhere they go, they are forced to live in truly disgusting conditions due to social landlords refusing to do repairs, the worst of crimes get committed against them. And they have no chance of police assisting them because police are biased against anyone in social housing - police in fact routinely abuse the poor because they know that nobody will believe the poor. And indeed - no matter how much evidence a poor person provides, they always, ALWAYS, get disbelieved by police, courts, authorities and other government organizations, they get made out to be "confused" - which is the polite term for "stupid and mentally unstable", they get falsely accused of the worst of crimes, they get kicked around like a ball. I also hope that the Indian media go and show the truth about the appalling and inhumane conditions in the US and the UK. It's impossible to talk about this here because the British - the English to be precise - claim that poor people are "only poor because they are stupid and lazy". It's precisely this disgusting and self righteous attitude that enables this disgusting situation, and the corruption everywhere, to not just continue but to get worse and worse. The conditions that I had to and still have to experience here in the UK would be unthinkable in my country of origin.

@Benny Hill ?

Thank you for sharing 💯🙏🏾

If your homeless whwre do you charge your cell phone.

@@lcloves349 peace 🤍

@@angieangiel2666 if u can swing a cell bill but not a home then u can charge it at a friends or anywhere u can. I know heads that use the outlet on the side of a bodega. There’s also shelters of course. I doubt ur gonna have the latest iPhone, it’s usually flip phones or pre paid or really old phones. When I was age 15-18 I didn’t have a phone at all. I had other more important logistics I needed to figure out first haha. My no phone years was around 2005-2008 ish. Weren’t the happiest years tbh. One might be homeless but able to couch surf sometimes. But some ppl r in deeper than that and wouldn’t have phones at all. Depends. In nyc now there’s charging stations all over the place. I know that changed the game for a lot of folks. One person by my crib set up a lawn chair and built a little house around our local charging station. I guess it’s just his now lol

Meanwhile eastern Europe 8k a year barely.

@@postalbear3695 wow.

@@postalbear3695 30-40k in Africa is excellent income.... Minimum wage here is $150-$350 monthly

@@shawnramito4863 its fucked up, here if you earn 1000€ a month its considered an excellent income

@@postalbear3695 same to "good" parts of Africa.... $1000-$2500 is "excellent income"

Excellent point. My thoughts exactly!

The government is not going to help, BLM most certainly will not help, some churches try but it's not enough; GOD works through us, when you hear the calling to act and feel in your heart something must be done it means it's you tasked to, and that is what it will take .. Us fixing it

Move

You created the mess, then move. How nice of you. I'm sure you voted in DeBlasio years ago. Where did that get you?

@@LDuke-pc7kq the GOV’T isn’t known for helping regular people only businesses and the wealthy the alt right and GOP is most definitely NOT going help us ! Only the community must come together to help each other through these trying times

I wish I had hundreds of millions of bucks at my disposal to help these homeless folks. Maybe these homeless folk should start getting really aggressive with the these rich fu_kers and see if they wanted take their freedom for granted ?

Absolutely if you see what the higher up make it would baffle you

The Homeless/Shelter Industrial Complex which only perpetuates a cycle of poverty and dependance. I didn't realize this until I got involved in trying to change things for the better.

Nah the world is fine it's society that is fucked!

Norway is doing fine thanks... other than being full of ignorant selfish people but that's not new

along with another 6T to our wealthiest corporate overlords

@Viiktor XIV not a TV all. America has the most bloated military industrial complex to the point where it is its own economy which drives the demand for more warfare.

Viiktor XIV 🔵 who'd want that nightmare? It's broke & coasting for another huge bubble bursting, worse than 2008. The whole worlds going downhill.

@@atomusbliss Or spend billions in missionary work and coups around the world!

@@atomusbliss God, the U.S. would still have the most powerful military in the world with half of our defense budget and half of the total personnel. All we would have to do is shore up our cyber-warfare capabilities/defenses and we could safely make it happen. But, no. Our politicians would rather argue about what the definition of infrastructure is and ignore that about 1/3 of the U.S. landmass is on fire than do anything to help it's own citizens.

You are very kind have a great day Love love love then peace peace ✌ peace 😃

I hope and pray things are going well for you now.

When on the streets homeless: "Gotta keep your head, exactly where you need it to be at, at all times". From my experiences through out the countries of this world 🌎. Bless All Always n Forever n Ever.

That's you in your profile picture

@@quanbrooklynkid7776 lol of course sir

@@c.b.jersey7304 yes most definitely...

I wouldn't let a dog eat that crap, let alone a human.

Exactly and piss in a bottle and say it’s brisk lemonade

What's worse than living and making Communist Laws under the guise of Freedom

New York State Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) has been accepting applications from eligible individuals and families at risk of experiencing homelessness or housing instability. Apply now and save yourself from being evicted, the forms are very straight forward and there’s a hotline to call if you’re having issues filing it out: otda.ny.gov/programs/Emergency-Rental-Assistance/

May something good happen to you

Move upstate. Plenty of cheap rentals available, you retain all New York rights and responsibilities. Really a no brainer.

@Mary Phelan Yeah, just forget about not having a job and the eviction...just "move upstate" ..that'll solve both problems...it was very nice of you to give him that very helpful advice...

@@damagecontrol8177 somebody had to

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Honestly, it makes sense, as morbid as that sounds. I hear about how sociopaths and narcissistic psychopaths have good jobs, homes and living wages, and yet, VERY GOOD people are living in literal SLUMS! That's beyond sick and wrong!

I can understand why a lot of homeless people don't want to sleep there, same in Europe.

Worst

I remember brown spaghetti lol at a shelter

*_John 10.9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly._* _Jesus Christ loves you. Only Jesus Christ saves. Repent and be saved. God bless you, and the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all._ ------

Poverty isn't a excuse to be a prostitute. You for the streets, literally and internally.

@@A2TRaNQuiLiiTy what an ignorant statement

@@astarothdashaahsadbrigades299 Was it whole wheat spaghetti? Because that is supposed to be healthier for you.

Amen

Word.

What is he actually doing or achieving to deserve the peace prize?

The Nobel Peace prize is useless to a man like Sham - just help him help others.

He doesn't seem to do anything but complain about the past and cry... He's literally always blaming his issues on everyone else but himself. You are not a slave, you are born free... Make the best of your life.

So true

Australia is no different either.

England either

India either

Canada either

Same Sweden

Yes me too. Unfortunately he works for the channel 4 news too. But hes very successful and beautiful, I think.

@@sarahdixon6011 sorry, what's wrong with Channel 4 news?

@@zuko803 I don't like it!

see his robert downey jr interview and you might feel a little differently lmao

His Michael Jackson interview he was rude lol

Creating more affordable housing, living wages and ending the war of drugs is a start

@@piperafrica1150 I agree. That's a very good start.

Wives leaving their husbands and taking all of their money is a big one.

@@sidthekid79 they're snakes. They force their way into office even if we don't want them. 🐍👿

Put them back in the asylums

All the cities everywhere.

Not only the people of colour white people are homeless too. Its not about race it's about class

You one of them idiots that think race has something to do with it.... my doctor is Indian Canadian, eye doctor is black, Chief of police in my town is also a well respected black man. Better yourself the only thing holding you back is you

@@OrionTheAussie 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@@OrionTheAussie exactly! I live in Scotland where it’s nearly 100% white and can tell you it is a class system. We have people who sponge off the government and blame immigrants and the government for their issues because they want to blame anyone but themselves. Same as a lot of black and brown people want to blame whites for their issues. I’m white, I’m not privileged! I’m lower class white. Fact in this world now is money is king, if you don’t have it you need to work harder!

At $15 dollar an hour, it's still not enough to pay rent though. You have to earn x4 times the rent price per year in order to afford a place, sure there are other ways, but even then it's hard. Rent cost haven't really changed much, even through the pandemic. Someone earning $15 dollars an hour, will have to rely on various programs to get by, even then they'll be living in a shoe box lacking a lot of commodities and even privacy. Life isn't as easy, or as black and white as people make it seem.

So the worker can pay the rent a lone and only a paycheck away from being homeless.

Not true, at least not in New York.

@@Gus-px7hd was in midtown when I was there

@@brendasprankle9394 according to the coalition for the homeless, in NYC, 7% of the homeless are white, 1% Asian. You can google it.

@@Gus-px7hd I can tell you the two years I lived on the streets of Manhatten, I saw 50/50

experience

you people who wish evil on a nation of 330 +million people are the ones who will be judged

@@718junius no one belongs to this nation but you!

There aint no judgement day,we have to do it ourselves!

@@didiervandijk9713 Lucifer you know their is a judgement day and you know your time is winding down tik tok!!!!

@@happybirthday8803 So is yours,youre crazy

just go to China and be a pop star in an English language school.

Keep that on the dl.

@@eduardochavacano the homeless should be English language teachers/pop stars in China? Give this man a Nobel peace prize!

Wow so true am living ok in Florida. And I don't take home $3000 a month.

@@eduardochavacano they need to have Bachelors degrees or above to work anywhere in Asia.

Killing people makes way more money than helping ppl. It’s a pretty simple equation for a capitalist superpower. War good.

@Fatimaxn Barry We don't have to give people money of 700+ billion dollars, but for example we can build many affordable apartments, give free or cheap workshops etc. All in all, I think giving people some amount of money doesn't make them lazy to work directly.

isn't that a contradiction? since Americans homeless or not can freely move within the nation. doesn't that mean that if a city did reliably solve the issue, that would in turn solve the issue for the nation as a whole?

How can they move when they’re homeless and broke??

@@bohemianchic638 They walk, hitchhike, or stowaway. Freight trains are an easy free ride but if you get caught it's a crime. walking is free, they can't take that away from you. hitchhiking is like begging but instead of money you ask for a ride.

PLEASE COME TO LOS ANGELES! same is happening here!

Yea, where I live has hard winters, helps keep the numbers down.

Im glad your doing good let no bad circumstances happen to you because if it does happen to you please take full responsibility for what happens to you

@@viceversa7562 I will.

Also omitted that many will tell you that the street is safer than the shelter

I worked in a shelter. Rules and Regs for sure but , it's a scary place to be in. Drug addicts for the most part do not go into shelters.

Good

Lol right just like those “rules” on the street.

I heard they make you lock all your belongings in a locker and can't take anything with you to your sleeping area and a lot of people don't want to part with their only belongings. Also that they require you to shower in an open area before you can go to the sleeping area, which is probably the most traumatizing thing.

It's not that simple. Lots of those people have serious mental and emotional problems, and they will just trash the apartment, not take care of themselves etc.

@@chihirostargazer6573 mental asylums are the solution

Corruption it is

@@qjtvaddict nah those are even worse

Chiniro where did you get that info? It’s one system for everyone. Yes, their are be some with mental health and they get funding for that. Remember the billions debasios wife had access to for mental health. The issue is not mental health. It is high rent, unreasonable rent and high taxes with low paying jobs. You all over the comments spewing mental health casting all homeless with a brush. I suspect you a troll sent by deblasio or cuomo for propaganda. Or maybe you spewing all this to cover for guilt because you are part of the problem somehow.

Exactly. Shams blames racism, slavery, the system etc but fails to recognises that his parents, by their bad choices, committed him to a life of suffering, not the system

@@tvs9978 I agree. We must look to our family and community before we look to the government!

Gee, well maybe the family wouldn't break down if people made more money to take care of their family. Making $8 an hour puts enormous stress in people and their family. Besides, I would much rather my tax money go to helping a fellow American who is down on their luck than to fund destroying other nations by invading them. We have more than enough money to take care of every America

You can't create a strong family when both parents need to work just to make ends meet. Also it depends on culture. In China both parents able to work in the city and left their child in the villages with their parents. They had a one child policy so that doesn't burden the grandparents, also there's no shame in chucking your kid to your parents. In America they kick out the child when they turn 18...

My family are dead. Who do I turn to? I was homeless for 10 years. No one cared, and I have a disability so I lost job after job Shelters couldn’t care less if the only work you can get is overnights, if you work overnight you don’t get to sleep. If someone is homeless, not abusing substances etc and just needs real help it’s still not there most times. There’s so many rich people who could give people a home, even a cheap one, a trailer under 5k even and change someone’s life forever. Not in NYcity maybe, but where I live yes they sell places that cheap. Yet no one helps. These places could do that for most people once, and never need to help again! But they’d rather use $5000 sheltering someone for 2 weeks only? Use funds to purchase housing! People don’t even want to see reality. No one ever seems to think they could end up in the street too, but ANYONE can with the cost of rent. I met more normal everyday people out there, people who had kids, people who had no family like me, people gay and thrown from their homes just for being themselves. People who have never touched drugs and who don’t drink, but might simply have anxiety and lose jobs. People with schizophrenia and never got the help they needed. And myself, who has a culinary degree but can’t work in that line of work because I get sick a lot, who is very smart and yet no one cared. Who lost my parents and have been raped and attacked several times, and hurt deep inside and can’t seem to figure out how to save myself and no one has ever saved me. People always yell at the homeless to “ get a job”. Working when homeless is next to impossible and I applaud anyone doing it for their extreme strength. They yell “ learn a job better yourself” Try going to school when homeless when you can not shower properly, or have any changes of clothing or sleep, and see how far you get. We all just need one person to actually care. And a ton of people don’t have that. Breakdown of the family won’t apply if family is gone forever.

Sad

@@xoxoxoxoxo7997 indeed

Future dystopian worldc

*_John 10.9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly._* _Jesus Christ loves you. Only Jesus Christ saves. Repent and be saved. God bless you, and the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all._ ------

Does Finland have a good social safety net, like, what happens if you lose your job and stay unemployed for a while?

@@ninalumiere145 thats where the bad part comes in. Some will never seek employment or get employed and those usually end up isolated and lonely with bunch of issues with mental health and drugs/alcohol. The problem is that u can live with wellfare too easily 500e/month+rent and electricity. There might be a chance for government to cut the benefits due to inactivity finding work but there are too many ways to exploit it. Free schooling also adds to the fact that Finland is full of well educated unemployed lazy bums

@@aquaria5634 Thank you for the response, We always hear wonders about the Nordic countries but ive always wanted to know how they get it done. I suppose a country with large population like the US is harder to manage, but there are many issues that stops other countries to be like Finland.

@@ninalumiere145 theres more to it that that but those are the biggest issues about employment. Imo no perfect government excists but at the same time i really am grateful to live as care free as it is with the situation with Russia