San Diego In Recession, An Envision San Diego Special Presentation

As the recession deepens in San Diego County, more families are finding themselves standing in food lines and losing their jobs and homes. In the San Diego Unified School District the second largest district in the state of California - nearly 60 percent of all families are eligible for the free and reduced-cost lunch program. More than 900 children in this one school district are homeless. Some families are living in their cars, others in shelters and motels. KPBS Television presents, San Diego in Recession, a special documentary on the new face of the homeless and the hungry, produced in high definition.

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News & Politics

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• homeless
• recession
• hungry
• Envision
• San
• Diego
• KPBS
• social
• sercives

[venneveetv]

move all the homeless to long beach ca to be shoot to death and no suspects found that will solve the homeless problem ! 3 men 2 woman shoot to death

[pineapple1969]

thomas and his brother actually have it really good compared to most homeless who only have a box to sleep in on the sidewalk.

[JahSolomon]

true...also notice how empty stores are and how stocked the malls shelves are

people go to malls to sight-see nowdays...not spend spend spend

[smearjay]

Thomas in not homeless, Thomas is lazy and unmotivated.

[linhh82]

It doesn't look like a recession in San Diego.

Visit Fashion Valley Mall and the parking lot is packed.  I left my job in 06 and was unable to find a job for almost 3 years.

[frazbest]

And I thought that I was a loser when I lost close to 100000 since last year in stocks and mutual funds . Shit man ! Life s worth living . USA 0 Terrorists 1 . Thank you very much for wars , recession , Hatred against Muslims , racism against people who look like Arabs , Hiroshima , Nagasaki , Arms race , Cold war , Vietnam , Iraq , Iraq 2 , Afghanistan, Drug culture , Porn , Israel conflict , racism , Problems with almost every other country in the world , Petroleum crisis , Inflation etcetcetc