Every year these stories come out, and nobody seems to talk about them much. The news stories are short, and when the even is topical the names aren't even often known.
We live in the wealthiest country in the world, but there is a widening gap between rich and poor, wealthy and indigent, and there are more casualties of our corporatist system ever day.
Many are closer than they realize to the streets, themselves. As my friend Alex said in podcast 019, all it takes is a nice fat medical bill and many people are done for. You might even be one of these people, living paycheck to paycheck.
Let's take a moment to honor the dead in our streets.