Thursday, January 19, 2012

Only Lazy and Undeserving People Are Homeless in This Country

Samantha [Garvey] is a senior at Brentwood High School [in New York whose]  family fell on hard times when her mother (a nurse's assistant) couldn't work for eight months because of injuries she received in accident. Samantha's dad, a cab driver, couldn't keep up with the bills and they were evicted from their home on New Year's Eve.

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Samantha  [...] has been living with her family in a homeless shelter and recently found out she's a semifinalist in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search competition.

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She's 17 and has applied to Yale and Brown universities.

  NPR
Lucky for Samantha that she won that award, which prompted a news story.  People are willing to help her family since the news came out. They've found a rent-subsidized home for them to live in, and Darrell Issa (D-Opportunist) has invited her to the State of the Union Address.

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