30% INCREASE In Homelessness Since 2023 While Economy Grows!?!

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🗓️ 3 January 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The number of homeless in the United States has grown by a third during the Biden years despite steady economic growth since the end of the pandemic. So how did this happen? Why did a rising tide not only fail to lift all boats, but now threatens to drown an even greater number of Americans living on the margins -- and under bridges, on sidewalks and in their cars?

Jimmy speaks with Food Not Bombs founder Keith McHenry about the history of homelessness, why the problem remains so entrenched in the U.S. and why purported attempts to solve it have failed so spectacularly.

Jimmy and McHenry then discuss where the tens of billions of dollars that have been allocated to solve the homelessness crisis really went since they’re obviously not being used as intended by the voting public.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Come see a side tour in Los Angeles.
0:05.1	Honolulu, Dallas, Texas, Baltimore, Atlantic City, co-hose New York, and Providence, Rhode Island.
0:11.8	Go to jimmie door.com for a link for tickets and only there.
0:16.8	Establishment media sucks.
0:19.0	All gas lighting.
0:20.0	So good luck.
0:20.9	Bullshit we can't afford. he's fomenting this.
0:23.6	Oh, oh.
0:25.0	Watch and see as a jet golf, the medium speeds, and jumps the medium and hits them head on.
0:31.8	It's the Chimmy Tor show.
0:35.3	Homelessness is up 18%. That's on top of the 13% the year before, but you got to love
0:43.4	that they still have pride in their city. Look at that. The tent has L.A. Isn't that nice?
0:50.2	I mean, I know this looks bad, but the more we look like Calcutta, the more we can compete globally with India.
0:56.1	That's what Vivek tells me.
0:59.1	Am I right?
1:00.1	Just imagine all the desperate future STEM geniuses being produced right now.
1:05.6	They can't watch Save By the Bell because they don't have streaming.
1:08.6	They're going to be great.
1:10.1	That's according to Vivek.
1:13.2	So here, Arnod Bertrand, he says, he says, this is undoubtedly the single most incriminating
1:22.0	statistic in the United States system alongside the 13% poverty rate in the United States.
1:29.5	Skyrocketing homelessness when the economy grows means that something is fundamentally
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