Today With Williamjordan

The Question of Same Sex Marriages

2012-05-10T08:05:00.001-07:00

As the president comes out in support of same sex marriages the question Christians that support the president must ask themselves is do we count or matter to the liberals in Washington. The president said he based his decision on the feelings of those around him who were being left out by decisions that make such unions illegal. As a Christian I feel as if the president of the United States of America has made a declaration against every god fearing married couple in America his beliefs are anti God and that’s his choice. But God fearing people have to understand his choice and break ties with such an evil God hating individual known as President Obama.

The line in the sand has been drawn Obama is the anti Christ and all Christian must see this man for what he is he is out to destroy the Christian values that the majority hold dear. Why there is suppose to be a separation of church in state the president keeps making moral issues the business of government by the power of influence. While many will say there have been no laws pass which is true but the influence of the president can be more powerful than any law being pass. During the interview in which the president decided to share his new found conviction he said his daughters played a major part in his decision. Not to be mean spirited but this is proof that they are not being raised in a Christian home because Christian children understand the teachings of God on homosexuality.

While many will see this as an attack on homosexuality it is not it a stance for marriage it’s the union of a man and woman it’s where they stand before God and make a vow. Why would those who do not have a belief system that requires a vow want to stand before God and make a vow.

The State of the African American Child

2012-04-20T03:43:00.000-07:00

Black children in America are at risk "A toxic cocktail of poverty, illiteracy, racial disparity, violence and massive incarceration is sentencing millions of children of color to dead end, powerlessness and hopeless lives and threatening to undermine the past half century of racial and social progress." This is how top educators see the position of black Children in America...The time to sound the alarm is know tomorrow will be to late we must not loose another generation to theses conditions when you have children who question their future then it's time to act.http://billjordan.hubpages.com/hub/The-State-Of-African-American-Child

The State of the Black Male

2012-03-30T01:17:00.003-07:00

It's time to take a look at the African American Male: There are several reports that show the need to improve the state of the African American male,Williamjordan will be sharing the findings of studies on the black male. It's the hope that a solution to the problems facing black male will be implicated.It's time that the black male get the attention needed to bring about change.

What is the State of the Black Male:

The graduation rate for Black male students
for the nation as a whole in 2007/8 was only
47%; that is, most Black male students did not
graduate with their cohort.

Schott – Other Key Findings
• Black male students do not do poorly in all states, districts,
communities, and schools;
• But the data in this report—as well as that in earlier Schott report
editions—consistently illustrate that Black male students in good
schools do well and, at the same time, that White, non-Hispanic
students in schools where most of the students are Black and have
low graduation rates (such as Indianapolis) also have poor
achievement outcomes.
• Schools and districts that have the highest percentages of
disadvantaged students tend to have the least access to the
resources needed for all students to succeed. Thus, White males in
schools and districts with large percentages of Black male students
are also likely to experience poor outcomes because of systemic
decisions not to commit resources to those districts and schools.

The link below gives details of the findings on the state of the Black Male

http://www.wcpss.net/e-d-task-force/2-3-11/The%20State%20of%20Black%20Males(Sutton).pdf

2012-02-22T15:56:00.000-08:00

Stop Child Trafficking

Should Black Christians Support Obama?

2012-02-13T12:55:00.000-08:00

The excitement of having a black president can be blinding and maybe obscuring the vision of some people is having a black president more important than maintaining Christian values? This is a hard question that every black Christian should have to answer. With issues such as same sex marriage and abortion being points of contentions how can Christians of any race support candidates that defy God? Maybe some feel these are issues of no concern to God, if we trust the written word we find no bases for such reasoning God abhors such actions in so should we, some will cry what about forgiveness and why that’s understandable only God can forgive sin, and others will say where’s the love to them I say love the person hate the sin. The real issues maybe is why would President Obama seek the support of those who share non of his values or beliefs. A more important question is what has Obama really accomplish that benefits any African American some will cry foul to such a question but the record will speak for itself.

Many and America would like to say there no place for the two but this is far from true Christianity is at the very heart of politics in America and this means that decision will have to be made in 2012 and no time has faith been at stake than in this election year many Christians will have to make decision, especially blacks who consider themselves Christians. If there was a strong black media outlet in this country this would be the biggest news story in African American politics, as President Obama holds the race card over African America Christians, as well as democratic traditional voting over this group. Since neither the Democrats nor President Obama support Christian beliefs it would seem this group would have some tough choices to make.

Who Has Benefited From Four years Of Obama

2012-01-12T10:14:00.000-08:00

With 2012 elections waiting in the shadows it's time to access the Obama Presidency one question comes to mind. Who has benefited from four years of Obama? Below you will find the record of what has happen since President Obama has been in office.

Provided the Department of Veterans Affairs with more than $1.4 billion to improve services to America's Veterans
Signed the Children's Health Insurance Reauthorization Act, which provides health care to 11 million kids -- 4 million of whom were previously uninsured
Issued executive order to repeal Bush era restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research
Signed the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act, the first piece of comprehensive legislation aimed at improving the lives of Americans living with paralysis
Developed stimulus package, which includes approx. $18 billion for nondefense scientific research and development
Signed the Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act to stop fraud and wasteful spending in the defense procurement and contracting system
Issued executive order to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay
Ended Bush administration's CIA program of 'enhanced interrogation methods' by requiring that the Army field manual be used as the guide for terrorism interrogations
Increased minority access to capital
Established Credit Card Bill of Rights, preventing credit card companies from imposing arbitrary rate increases on customers
Health Care Reform Bill, allowing children to remain covered by their parents' insurance until the age of 26
Tax cuts for up to 3.5 million small businesses to help pay for employee health care coverage
Above are twelve accomplishments of the Obama administration not very impressive when you look at unemployment numbers that are nine percent overall but rise to eighteen percent when you look at the rate for African Americans twelve percent for Veterans returning from Iraq.
Nearly four years after the original $700 billion dollar stimulus, foreclosures are still at record highs.
Mr.Obama promise more transparency in Washington this has not happen almost all progress in Washington have been closed door deals.
Failed to balance the budget.
Why Obama will receive the full support of African Americans does he really deserve this support?
Could it be safe to say no one has benefited from President Obama first four years in office? The inability to make economic progress has marred the first four years of the Obama Presidency .

The State of Urban Business 2011

2012-01-03T04:35:00.000-08:00

The State of Urban Business 2011

What Happen to A Second Chance

2011-12-29T02:08:00.001-08:00

No More Second Chances

Does anyone deserve a second chance? You ask any Governor, congress person, local mayor, law enforcement officer or apartment manager or potential employer and they will say no. There are man and woman throughout America who have changed their lives but cannot find suitable housing or employment because no one believes and a second chance. Many will say with so many repeat offenders how do you determine who deserves a second chance? This is a fair and reasonable question but the answer is found in the question those who are not repeating are the ones that deserve a second chance. We live and a world of collections and classifications there are no more individuals we treat people like a bushel of peaches if one is rotten we assume all are.
Many will wonder why the concern it's simple when one is denied adequate means of living nature demands one be found. So how does one get the second chance he doesn't deserve is the question that must be answered. Opinions are not answers to real problems but they are acceptable to those who make the laws there are hundreds of thousands drug felons who cannot work because of the word felon and the opinion connected to it."[A]n estimated 3.9 million U.S. citizens are disenfranchised, including over one million who have fully completed their sentences. … The racial impact of disenfranchisement laws is particularly egregious. Thirteen percent of African American men—1.4 million—are disenfranchised, representing just over one-third (36 percent) of the total disenfranchised population. In two states, our data show that almost one in three black men is disenfranchised. In eight states, one in four black men is disenfranchised." Disenfranchisement does not just affect men, there are 676,730 women of that 2/3 are African American. Disenfranchisement has been reference to voting rights but the actual reach is much futher unemployment and homelessness are factors that must be included.
What happen to a second chance ?

ANEW Life Ministry

2011-11-18T14:49:00.001-08:00

ANEW Life Ministry is a ministry dedicate to the cleaning up and restoration and beautification of the

southeast communities of Houston, Texas. Below are pictures of the conditions of some of the neighborhoods and these communities some of these pictures where taken at the front door of one of the communities elementary school it's the belief of ANEW Life Ministry that in order to develop a better community the environment must be clean up.

ANEW Life Ministry will began organizing a cleanup and community devlopement campaign beging in 2012.

The mission of ANEW Life Ministry is to bring the body of Christ to the community for the purpose of Restoration, Beautification, and Edification. It’s the belief of the leadership of a ANEW Life Ministry that the cleaning up of the environment is a necessary component of bringing a new day and hour to a community in need.

Project Rebuild Part of The American Job Act That was Rejected by the U.S. Senate

2011-11-14T06:59:00.001-08:00

This will be the last article Williamjordan will write about the American Job Act of 2011 this bill was far more than a jobs bill it was a road map to revitalization.And project rebuild was just one way to begin the revitalization of America.

"This subtitle authorizes $15 billion in investments to put

construction workers on the job rehabilitating and refurbishing

hundreds of thousands of vacant and foreclosed homes and

businesses. Building on proven approaches to stabilizing

neighborhoods with high concentrations of foreclosures, Project

Rebuild will bring in expertise and capital from the private

sector, focus on commercial and residential property

improvements, and expand innovative property solutions like

land banks. The goals of this subtitle are to create jobs, as

well as stabilize neighborhoods, reverse vacancy reduction, and

increase or stabilize residential and commercial property

values."

Many have said that the price tag was just too high and why the price might be considerable the price of doing nothing and these critical times might be even greater.

The idea behind these articles have been to give those who read this blog the opportunity to review some of this bill that they may understand the American Job Act of 2011. It's the hope of the author that we see this section and the other sections that we have mention in this blog as law.

Thanks to those who have visit this blog over the last month please feel free to comment.

Payroll Tax Cut Part Of American Job Act Congress Said No To. Are Tax Cuts Only

2011-11-02T15:26:00.000-07:00

Are tax cuts only for the rich? This is a question the American people should be asking the U.S. Senate as they vote aganist a payroll tax cut but keep suggesting that a tax cut is whats needed to get the economy going. In addition, the American Jobs Act of 2011 puts more money in the pockets of working and middle class Americans by cutting in half the payroll tax that comes out of the paycheck of every worker, saving typical families an average of $1,500 a year.

What could the typical American family do with and extra 1500 a year ?

Teacher Stabilization Part of The American Job Act The U.S. Senate Said No To

2011-10-18T11:18:00.000-07:00

The American Job act of 2011 contain the the following section that would have bought relief to childhood education and eliminated some of the tough choices made at the end of the 2010 school year but lawmakers rejected this "The purpose of this subtitle is to provide funds to States to prevent teacher layoffs and support the creation of additional jobs in public early childhood, elementary, and secondary education in the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 school years."The proposed plan targeted at least 35,000 schools at a time when schools are being closed and teacher layoffs are the tough choices law makers says no one wants to make, it appears these choices are becoming the norm. As law makers like the senate choose to make decision that continue to cut deeper into education spending,
Education in America as it really is Economically:
35 OF50 States laid off or fired teacher in 2010 but only 52 Senators voted the reality of their states education economic condition.
As many as 100,000 teacher could see there job disappear the numbers around the country was 20,000
California, 17,000 Illinois,15,000 New York,as you can see a hundred thousand is a modest estimate when the real numbers for three states total 53,000. This just a sample of whats happening as lawmakers do nothing but say no if this plan is to costly then whats the answer is the question we must ask our lawmakers?

Buy American Part of the American Job Act That The U.S. Senate Said No To

2011-10-16T11:05:00.000-07:00

Section 4--Buy American--Use of American Iron, Steel, and
Manufactured Goods. This section provides for the use of
American iron, steel and manufactured goods, except in certain
instances.
Above is section 4 of the American Job Act of 2011, authorizing the use of American made steel and manufactured goods; as you can see the wording of this bill leaves a loophole it's the belief of the author that congress could better spend their time closing such loop holes.As of Oct. 12, 2011 the Jobs bill is in limbo as 50 Democratic senator voted yes two Republican Senator yes and the remainder no this irresponsible vote along party lines has eliminated 1.9 million jobs.
The Idea of Buy American what would it do for the overall economic problem what if all federal, state, and local government projects were build with all American made products? What if all subways and rails were made with all American made products?What if all home builders use American building products? These are all what ifs but these are base on the actions of others but there are things we as every day citizens can do.

"If the government won't help, then the people must do it themselves. Let's say 300,000,000 Americans each simply reallocated 1 dollar per day, spending 1 dollar less on foreign-made goods, 1 dollar more on American-made goods. (That's $30 per month, per person, and it is not an extra $30 per month, but just where you spend it!) After a year, this would add up to $109,500,000,000. What could the real, productive American economy do with an extra $109.5 billion? How about 2,737,500 new jobs paying $40,000 per year?"

The idea is that government has decided to do nothing if you read Today With Williamjordan the last week you know we cross the line to support the American Job Act of 2011, we see the need to get Americans back working, and this is just one way it can be done.

Here"s and example of how the government spends money with overseas contractors 35 of the defense departments top 100 contractors are foreign. This is a department with a budget of 549 billion that spends a considerable amount on non U.S. goods.

The idea of this blog is to encourage the use of American products and to encourage the American public to tell government it's time we decide how and where our tax dollars are being spent.

Thirty - Five Foreign DOD Contractors

Accenture LTD.
Allied Container
BAF Systems PIC
Land Systems OMC
BDM Corporation
British Nuclear Fuels
Delta Inetligence
EADS
Eurocopter
Airbus
Elbit Systems
Enivormental Tectonic Corporation
Fabbrica of Armi Pietro Beretta
Fabrique Nationale DE Herstal
G 45 PLC
Mowag
Glock Ges M.B.H
Heckler & Koch
H S Products
Infotech AeroSpace Service
Israeli AeroSpace Ind.
Israeli Military industries
Kongsberg Defence & AeroSpace
Mac. Grergor Group
M.P. Moller Maersk Group Canda
Menatek Spare Parts
Mitsubishi
Para Ordnance
Saab AB
Siemens AG
St.Engieering
St.Kinetics
Swiss Arms
Farjas Taurus S/a
Telent

This is and example of how America Jobs are lost to overseas contractors these are 35 defense contractors this adds up to thousands of Jobs, and millions of dollars.

Today With Williamjordan Reasons to tell Your Congressman or Senator to Support The American Job Act of 2011

2011-10-06T12:33:00.000-07:00

Senate blocks Jobs Bill Oct. 12, 2011

Reason to support the American Job Act is one man's view of a bill that has something for all American to say yes too. For the record Williamjordan is not a Democrat and has accuse the Obama administration of socialism for the record but after careful consideration and analysis of the American Job act has decided to support this bill and encourage others to do the same.
The first reason that the American people should encourage support for this bill is that it's a well rounded bill that looks at the American Job problem from a common perspective with and every day approach it's a real jobs bill talking about real jobs and real work that's needed school closings, Teacher lay offs and bad roads are real problems in Texas were I reside and if you listen to the news pick up a news paper or surf the web lately you have heard of a school closing, or the laying off of teachers all across America.

Teacher stabilization is one of the components of this bill that should be considered when one thanks about supporting this bill or not. " SUBTITLE B--TEACHER STABILIZATION Section 202--Purpose. This section establishes the purpose of this subtitle as the prevention of teacher layoffs and creation of additional jobs in public early childhood, elementary, and secondary education".Williamjordan feels the American people should consider this section of the bill when they suggest to their repersentavite they support the American Job Act of 2011.Thousand of educators were layed off at the end of the 2010 school years as several states were forced to make what they called tough choices.This portion of the bill is a prevention measure for future tough choices that should not have to be made because they risk the future greatness of America.
Infrastructure crowed roads, outdated subways, decaying bridges, these along with thousands of other are everyday problems face by Americans that this Job bill is pose to correct. Pollution control is part of the infrastructure section of the bill some of us live in the inner city and money spent toward cleaning and rehabilitation would be welcome. Buy American is part of the Infrastructure bill that's real important to those of us who are looking for a revitalization of America, buying American steel and other products would create many jobs and lower economic indicators that reflect the GDP.

Project Rebuild is another one of the sections of this bill that the American People should read and then let their representative know they have knowledge of the Jobs Act and whats in this section This section is about putting construction workers back to work refurbishing foreclose homes and rebuilding neighborhoods I don't know about where you live but In Texas a lot of foreclose property are in need of repair. And 2009 I took a road trip throughout the south and up the Eastern seaboard the conditions are pretty much the same, if there's anyone who can say that there no need to rebuild America I say stand up and say it.

Veterans Hiring Preferences this section of the bill would give a tax credit to employers that hire veterans with service connected disability that have been unemployed six months or more.The importance of this bill is that labor department data shows unemployment running at 12% for this group of veterans and climbing as troop reduction begins.

Title three of the propose job act is assistance for the unemployed with a pathway to work plan not just the old payment benefit plan it reward the worker and the employer, the reemployment now pogrom would allocate 4 billion dollars to reemploy people in 2012."-Reemployment NOW program

This part establishes the Reemployment NOW program.

Section 321--Establishment of Reemployment NOW Program.

This section would authorize and appropriate $4 billion for

fiscal year 2012 for the Secretary of Labor to establish and

carry out a Reemployment NOW program, which would facilitate

the reemployment of individuals receiving emergency

unemployment compensation.

Above you will find some of the everyday components of the bill that make it work for the everyday person the problems that most trouble Americans are the unemployed and the bad economic condition that threaten our day to day living, Click on this link to study the North American Job Act of 2011
act
.http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CDOC-112hdoc53/html/CDOC-112hdoc53.htm
It's the belief of the author of this blog Williamjordan that the North American Job Act of 2011 should be read by every American who care about America this is the Answer to a new day in America.

You Have a Choice

2011-08-31T14:58:00.000-07:00

You Have a Choice

It’s been a while since Williamjordan has written about addiction, being sober six years, but addiction is still a very important part of my life; I just do not use because of choice. The greatest gift that has been given is choice; see most addicts do not have the power of choice, most people will say no way but before Oct. 22^nd, 2005 the power of choice was not an option. If the urge to use came then use it was. In this article Williamjordan will write a practical guide on how any addict can regain the power of choice if that’s what he desires.

Read more: http://www.bukisa.com/articles/544445_you-have-a-choice#ixzz1X02d5x6q

America's Kid's The Risk Grows

2011-07-13T03:17:00.000-07:00

Federal report shows drop in adolescent birth rate

Annual statistics compilation notes increases in 8th grade drug use, child poverty

The adolescent birth rate declined for the second consecutive year, preterm births declined for the third consecutive year, adolescent injury deaths declined, and fewer 12th graders binge drank, according to the federal government’s annual statistical report on the well-being of the nation’s children and youth.

However, a higher proportion of 8th graders used illicit drugs, more children were likely to live in poverty, and fewer children were likely to live with at least one parent working year round, full time, according to the report, America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2011.

The report was compiled by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, a working group of 22 federal agencies that collect, analyze, and convey data on issues related to children and families. The report uses the most recently available major federal statistics on children and youth to measure family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education, and health.

“It is reassuring to see continued declines in the preterm birth rate and adolescent birth rate,” said Alan E. Guttmacher, M.D., director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.”

The report provides statistical information on children and families in a non-technical, easy-to-use format to stimulate discussion among data providers, policymakers, and members of the public.

“This report documents some significant changes in several key areas,” said Edward Sondik, Ph.D., director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. “Preliminary data show significant declines in infant mortality and in fatal injuries to teens. These are very interesting snapshots of children’s health that we have in this report.”

This year’s report includes a special feature on adoption. Special features focus on measures not available with sufficient frequency to be regular indicators or which provide more detailed information about a topic. According to the report, adoption is preferred over alternatives such as long term foster care or care in group homes, emergency shelters, and orphanages. The report also noted that although most adopted children thrive, children who are adopted, particularly those adopted beyond the first months of life, experience disruptions in parenting that can have longstanding implications for their development and well-being. Among the statistics in the adoption special feature:

• Approximately 2.5 percent of U.S. children joined their families through adoption

• 21.5 percent of adopted children were of a different race than their adoptive parent. This percentage varied by state from 8.4 to 42.5 percent

• 29 percent of adopted children had moderate to severe health problems, compared with 12 percent of all children.

Among the findings in this year’s report:

• A drop in births to adolescents, from 21.7 per 1,000 girls ages 15 to 17 (2008) to 20.1 per 1,000 (2009, preliminary data)

• A drop in the proportion of infants born before 37 weeks, from 12.3 percent (2008) to 12.2 percent (2009, preliminary data)

• A drop in injury-related deaths among teens ages 15-19 from 44 per 100,000 (2008, preliminary data) to 39 per 100,000 (2009, preliminary data)

• A drop in the proportion of 12th graders who binge drank, or reported having five or more alcoholic beverages in a row in the past 2 weeks, from 25 percent (2009) to 23 percent (2010)

• A drop in deaths before the first birthday, from 6.6 per 1,000 births (2008, preliminary data), to 6.4 per 1,000 births (2009, preliminary data)

• A drop in children ages 0-17 living in counties in which levels of one or more air pollutants were above allowable levels from 69 percent (2008) to 59 percent (2009)

• An increase of two points in the average mathematics score for 8th graders (2007 to 2009)

• An increase of three points in the average mathematics scale score for 12th graders (2005 to 2009)

• A rise in the proportion of 8th graders who reported using illicit drugs in the past 30 days, from 8 percent (2009) to 10 percent (2010)

• A drop in the percentage of children from birth to 17 years of age living with at least one parent employed year round full time, from 75 percent (2008) to 72 percent (2009)

• A rise in the proportion of children from birth to 17 years of age living in poverty, from 19 percent (2008) to 21 percent (2009)

• A rise in the proportion of households with children ages 0-17 reporting one or more of three housing problems: crowded housing, physically inadequate housing, or housing that costs more than 30 percent of household income, from 43 percent (2007) to 45 percent (2009)

• The percentage of children reported currently to have asthma did not significantly differ between 2008 and 2009. However, the report did reveal that the percentage of children with asthma has been steadily increasing (trending upward) between 2001 and 2009.

Members of the public may access the report online at http://childstats.gov on July 8, after 12 p.m. EDT. Printed copies of the report are also available from the Health Resources and Services Administration Information Center, P.O. Box 2910, Merrifield, VA 22116, by calling 1-888-Ask-HRSA (1-888-275-4772), or by e-mailing ask@hrsa.gov.

The NICHD sponsors research on development, before and after birth; maternal, child, and family health; reproductive biology and population issues; and medical rehabilitation. For more information, visit the Institute’s Web site at http://www.nichd.nih.gov/.

About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.

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Juvenile Justice The Broken System

2011-06-16T08:57:00.000-07:00

America"s Juvenile justice system is broken we are turning out to many adult criminals, and too many victims of sexual crime are being treated as criminals, to many abused children are not being given the proper help before they find themselves before the judge all of these are injustices that we call justice. Has America gave up on Rehabilitation even when it comes to our young?

Every youth in this country is entitled to a juvenile justice system that is fair and equitable, and as a nation, we are entitled to a juvenile justice system that is effective at its mission. The Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice (FACJJ) believes that the mission of our juvenile justice system is to equitably promote rehabilitation and accountability of youth and ensure public safety. This can be accomplished by making smart choices about juvenile justice legislation and programs. Federal, state, and local legislation should be based on research findings about what is most effective in preventing and reducing juvenile crime and in making communities safer. Decisions should not be based in large part on responses to emotional public outcry or media-sensationalized offenses.making smart choices means providing the right sanc-tions and services to the right juveniles at the right time without regard to biases or prejudices based on race and ethnicity; cultural values; gender; physical, emotional, or mental disabilities; or socioeconomic status. Ideally, a fair and effective juvenile justice system is one that addresses the needs of youth in the system, their victims, families, and communities. It does not focus exclusively on offenders or victims. With all levels of government struggling to remedy budget shortfalls, juvenile justice policymakers can help the nation economically achieve a fair and equitable juvenile justice system by supporting and funding pro-grams that are evidence based and have been proven effective. recognizing that budget cuts are a fiscal reality, FACJJ believes that equity and effectiveness can be achieved if youth-serving agencies such as child welfare, social services, education, and juvenile justice coordinate their programs and services. this would save agencies and taxpayers money by eliminating costly duplication of services and should result in coordinated programs that more effectively address the multiple problems faced by many juveniles in our juvenile justice system. FACJJ believes the juvenile justice system should focus on rehabilitating the majority of juvenile offend-ers and reserve the most severe sanctions for the most serious and violent juvenile offenders.With this said, tremendous inequities exist when it comes to dealing with children and juveniles, the child welfare system, the education system, and the juvenile

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Homeless In America

2011-06-15T02:42:00.000-07:00

Williamjordan sits at his desk and turns on the computer things like the top searches, today’s hottest topics, today hottest photos, politicstoday, stocks today and so forth, pop up keeping us informed about the world today Williamjordan feels there are other topics that need attention today he will look at homeless in America, and homeless children in America. Hope you will find these clips, pictures and news articles interesting, there will be links to others sites to better inform you on what the topic is today it's homelessness. As a believer we have a duty to keep the suffering on the minds of the citizens.

As the recession continues we can expect the number of the homeless to increase to about 1.5 million double the amount listed below according to government numbers,as the number increase we as Americans need to look at ways to help our fellow Americans.

A few facts

Homelessness

seven hundred thousand homeless in America:

•Single men comprise 44 percent of the homeless, single women 13 percent, families with children 36 percent, and unaccompanied minors seven percent.

•The homeless population is about 50 percent African-American, 35 percent white, 12 percent Hispanic, 2 percent Native American and 1 percent Asian.

•28 percent said they sometimes or often do not get enough to eat, compared with 12 percent of poor American adults.

•44 percent did paid work during the past month.

•21 percent received income from family members or friends.

•66 percent of the homeless have problems with alcohol, drug abuse, or mental illness.

•22 percent have been physically assaulted.

•7 percent have been sexually assaulted.

•38 percent say someone stole money or things directly from them.

•30 percent have been homeless for more than two years.

Solutions

•Housing First

•Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing

•Solutions Focus Areas

•Ten Essentials

•Ten Year Plan

•Community Plans

•Local Progress

Community Plans

The development of local ten years plans began in 2000 when the Alliance announced "A Plan, Not A Dream: How to End Homelessness in Ten Years." Since then, hundreds of communities have developed local plans based on this template.Over 250 ten year plans to end homelessness have been completed in various states, regions, or local communities. Locate plans using an interactive map or the Alliance's online database. If your community has a completed plan that is not included, please email the plan to Meghan Henry.

Spotlight

Ten Year Plan Locator's MapInteractive Tool
May 2, 2010This map serves as a geographic database of the 234 state, regional, and local ten year plans to end homelessness that have been collected by the Alliance.

Library Resources

Ten Year Plan DatabaseInteractive Tool
May 5, 2010This interactive spreadsheet serves as a database of the 234 Plans that have been collected by the Alliance.Beyond Planning: Denver, COSolutions Brief
April 8, 2010
Denver, CO has experienced tremendous success in implementing its Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness, much of which can be attributed to a few core practices. A slate of those practices are examined here.Ten Year Plan TimelineInteractive Tool
January 16, 2010This timeline, released in conjunction with A Shifting Focus: What's In Ten Year Plans to End Homelessness, documents the evolution of 10-year plans from the development of the first plan in 1998 to the present.A Shifting Focus: What's New in Community Plans to End HomelessnessReport
September 3, 2009This Data Update provides an updated content analysis of the 234 completed community plans to end homelessness. In addition to illustrating of the growth of 10-year plans, this update will compare the content of earlier (first 90 plans) and later plans (144).A New Vision: What is in Community Plans to End Homelessness?Report
November 1, 2006A New Vision: What is in Community Plans to End Homelessness? examines the content of Ten Year Plans to End Homelessness from across the country. This study reveals that 90 communities have completed plans that dramatically transform their homeless assistance systems and analyzes the strength of the plans by calculating a score for each strategy based on the likelihood that it would be implemented.

Media Clips on Community Plans

Editorial: Lack of communication hampers plan for homeless (Dallas Morning News, 06.11.2010)Opening Doors (White House Urban Affairs Blog, 06.16.2010)Study of Fort Worth's homeless plan shows 'dramatic progress' (Star Telegram, 06.21.2010)m

Other sites about the Homeless

•Homeless Facts & Figures

SHAL Southernmost Homeless Assistance League

•Homelessness

•National Alliance to End Homelessness: Publication Library: Take Five! Q & A with Secretary Kath

A View From The Bottom

2011-06-11T03:06:00.000-07:00

All is well

All is well unemployment is a little high!!!

All is well the homeless number’s are stable

All is well only have to close six schools, and high crime neighborhoods,

All is well the War on Drugs move to Mexico

All is well Wall Street finished the week up!!

This is the delusion called America where all is well if the congressman stop sending his pictures over twitter. All is well but as the sun goes down 325,000 children prostitutes, hit the streets 750,000 pedophiles are surfing the web. And I know one mother is shedding tears over a son no one will remember tomorrow who died at the hands of a policeman, the forgotten child is my inspiration tonight because most of the little ones will never know his story the story of a robbery gone wrong that cause him his life, they say it takes a village to raise a child wish this was the village we could round all the little one up and tell them how little Trey died one gunshot to the head as his foot went through the door of a house where he did not belong but no they will go to bed thanking all is well and this hell we call America.

Games Rooms Invading Inner City Neighborhood as City Official Do Nothing to Stop Destruction

2011-05-20T12:47:00.000-07:00

There a New Form of Crack Cocaine Destroying Inner City Illegal Games Rooms

Publish Date: 05/20/2011

Gambling is illegal in the state of Texas as well as the city of Houston that has not stop the number of game room from opening in large numbers especially in Houston's inner city. Since 2009 when there were a numbers of bust in the suburbs and the counties surrounding Houston these scavengers and vultures have followed the way of the drug cartels and move into the inner city poor low income welfare families who live at or slightly above the poverty rate. They also have targeted those on fixed income little old ladies on social security, who get paid once a month. These eight liner game rooms lead to other crimes and the community such as robbery, money laundering, some have been reported to fund terrorism ,

Below you will find three news reports taken from the Houston Chronicle detailing the types crime that follow these game rooms, is the city of Houston sending a message to the criminals and the black community by do nothing by allow these game rooms to relocate to our communities with ease is the question we are asking? After these two articles on the criminal nature of these type business you will find a list of the number of game rooms being allowed to operate on one neighbor hood street. That have been in operation for the last past year since the move from suburbia to inner city began.

"A Clear Lake area man was sentenced to a year in federal prison for conspiring to launder money from his six illegal game rooms.Thanh V. "Tommy" Bui, 33, who operated gaming rooms in Galveston and Harris counties, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison. Bui was fined $114,000 and forfeited another $71,000 and two cars '" an Acura NSX and a Mercedes S550.Bui's clubs were the Lucky 777 on the Gulf Freeway, the Amusement Palace on FM 2004, the Bay Area on Friendswood Link, the O.C. on Long Point, the Coffee Shop on Scarsdale and the Hide-Away on 12th Street in Bacliff.Prosecutor Ryan McConnell said the game rooms had machines known as "8-liners," some as many as 50 machines. Authorities were alerted to the "private clubs" because of robberies and other criminal cases there."

Robbery is another crime that increases behind game rooms "HOUSTON'"Three suspects were arrested early Wednesday after robbing a southwest Houston game room, according to Houston police.

Police were in pursuit of three men who allegedly robbed a game room in the 10800 block of West Bellfort around 2:30 a.m.

March 1, 2011 - Investigators in the Houston Police Department's Vice Division arrested five suspects following a lengthy undercover investigation into eight-liner game rooms operated in various locations throughout Houston, Harris, Fort Bend and Brazoria Counties.

The suspects, Nancy Donalson (w/f, DOB: 7-20-77), Terry Wayne Donalson (w/m, DOB: 10-12-71), James Keith (w/m, DOB: 5-19-36), Alton Donalson (w/m, DOB: 4-23-34) and Mario Flavio Correa (H/m, DOB: 8-6-70) are charged with felony money laundering in the 351st State District Court.

Photos of all five suspects are attached to this news release.

A sixth suspect, Carlos Delgado (H/m, DOB: 1-25-72), remains at large.

The eight-liner game rooms were at the following locations:

10930 Kingspoint - Lucky Bee Game Room

8310 Gulf Freeway - Gulf Paradise

2728 South Richey - Lucky Game Room

5630 Edgemoor - Cardinal Leak Detection

12338 Maple Leaf Lane (Stafford, Tx.) - Terry and Nancy Donalson's residence

7919 Twin Hills - Alton Donalson's residence

1412 and 1502 Ahrens (strip mall center) Terry and Nancy Donalson's business offices

In an investigation that began in April 2010, HPD vice officers targeted the owners/operators of illegal game rooms. Vice officers conducted surveillance and undercover operations that netted more than $1.5 million dollars in currency, nearly $200,000 in bank account assets, 10-acre river-front property in Brazoria County, guns, jewelry, various vehicles, boats, jet skis, motorcycles, and heavy-duty tools. Investigators also recovered several currency counters, and more than 250 video gambling devices.

At 2 p.m. March 1, investigators from the HPD Vice Division answered questions regarding this investigation in the media briefing room, HPD Headquarters, 1200 Travis.

These are a few bust that have taken place in Houston the past year related to game rooms this would be good news accept known of these raid took place in low income inner city neighborhoods that have game rooms on every corner. On Martin Luther King Ave. and Southeast Houston there games room located at Martin Luther King and Allen Genoa a Shell Gas Station, Martin Luther King and Airport a Texaco Station, Martin Luther King and Reed there two one inside the Shell station and one in the Strip center at Martin Luther King and Belabor the Diamond Shamrock Station this is just one street in one neighborhood in the inner city you will find the remainder of the neighborhoods and the same condition.

We are talking about illegal gambling the provider of the service is a violator of city and state law and federal law if money is being laundered we call on elected officials to uphold the law and protect our communities from these criminals. In my article "Who will Bail Out the Hood" this is the bail out we as a community are looking for a balance of enforcement and distribution of law and resources we must be protected from these corrupt games room that will leech the remain life out of the community as long as they are illegal and unregulated the community is at risk we call for legalization and regulation or shutdown and chains on the doors.

Source: Houston Chronicle

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Why are There 325,000 Child Prostitutes in America?

2011-04-16T13:04:00.000-07:00

The child prostitute Amplify, a child advocates group had this to say, “They face violence and pressure from relentless pimps who see them as a source of income rather than vulnerable children.” Some of the things pimps do to teenage prostitutes is starvation, confinement, beatings and physical abuse, rape, and gang rape, forced drug use. Then when caught they face a justice system that even try some of them as adults then they face their own demons of low self-worth, shame, guilt and the sadistic acts of a sick john. The question is why there are 325,000 children prostitutes in America? How could America the land of the free, the home of the brave, the humans rights capital of the world, be the home to 325,000 prostitutes? We fight wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, back rebels in Libya; but we cannot stop men from picking up teenage girls while the girls are considered criminal by the justice system and therefore felons this is a matter of belief. There are strong advocates that take the stance that there are no victims this could very well be true but some crimes require rehabilitation especially when another party is the sole benefactor of the crime. Actually there are two benefactors -the john and the pimp; the child loses three times for accepting a terrible way out of what seems an impossible situation.

Where do these girls come from? Here’s one example “Pimps allegedly transported girls as young as 13 from Oklahoma to cities in Texas, Florida, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Arkansas for prostitution. The young girls were recruited then controlled through threats, violence and intimidation. Much of the prostitution took place at truck stops in and around Oklahoma City” this is one of many examples of how they begin their trade but their background varies so they can basically be found in any of the following settings rural, metropolitan America’s inner city, suburbs, rich, poor, two parent homes, one parent homes, most would like to narrow them down to runaways and unwanted kids but that’s not the real story. These kids come from all walks of life and all are some ones daughter, sister, granddaughter but most of all they are human so they have certain rights as human beings and one is not to be the property of another.

This brings up the question- victim or criminal? Depending on who’s making the decision, some see them as being part of a criminal enterprise engaging in criminal activities. One Houston Texas case made it all the way to the Texas Supreme Court- here’s the ruling “The case of a 13-year-old Harris County girl charged with soliciting sex made it all the way to the Texas Supreme Court. The justices ruled that the girl, as well as any other child prostitute, is not a criminal, but rather a victim,” that’s the decision in Texas let’s look at some other comments “Nearly one-third of the juvenile prostitutes picked up by police are treated as offenders rather than victims, a nationwide study of teen prostitution found.”

Here are some things that are being done to help we believe the best thing that can be done is to get involve.

Child Labor a Crime Against Pakistan's Children

2011-04-14T10:35:00.000-07:00

Are the World's Children at Risk? continues

Child Labor a Crime against Pakistan’s Children

A good writer should know who his reader’s are Williamjordan, has a blog on blogger and when the stats are check and countries are look at besides the U.S. the largest amount of my readerships comes from Pakistan, at right around one hundred per month about twenty-five percent.

Saying this child labor has been an alarming problem worldwide while some progress has been made on this problem overall the reverse has been happening in Pakistan. Child Labor according to the UN Child Labor” is generally speaking work for children that harms them or exploits them in some way (physically, mentally, morally or blocking access to education), United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund” The study led to this discovery.

The discovery was as of 2010 while other countries were lowering their child labor rates the ILO found that Pakistan rate was increasing .“.The Survey of All Pakistan Labor Force in 2007 and 2008 showed that there have been over 21 million labor children between the ages of 10 to 14 working in the country, out of which 73 percent are boys and 27 percent are girls. It is almost double of what Human Rights Commission of Pakistan estimated in 2005.The International Labor Organization (ILO) wishes to end all hazards and bonded slave child labor by 2016 it would be unthinkable that there will be no child labor.The numbers are alarming and they qualify for and oh that’s bad but that’s not what the writer or the people of Pakistan are looking for. What’s make such conditions possible acceptable and suitable and the case of Pakistan, poverty is the main reason for child labor as it is and most countries that have challenges of this type.

Poverty is different in every country the general definition of poverty “The state of being poor not having enough money to take care of basic needs such as food, clothing, and housing.” These conditions and underdeveloped countries such as Pakistan produce the classic environment for child labor when you add the following, three factors no social services to offer children security, class based education which means that high poverty areas do not have the ability to offer a quality or even a standard education. Low or no enforcement of labor laws the government of Pakistan, already has in place’ laws such as The West Pakistan Shops and Establishments ordinance of 1969, The Employment of Children Act 1991, The Bonded Labor System Abolition Act 1992 and The Punjab Compulsory Education Act 1994 yes these laws are part of the Pakistani Constitution, Governments enforce laws constitutions just contain them. Countries such as the U.S. not enforcing their own laws not to import items manufactured by children preformed and child labor camps do not help with child labor issues. In the US case surgical equipment imported from Pakistan out of the area of Sialkaot it has been reported by the International Textile, Garment, and Leather Workers Federation, that three to four thousand children 10 -15 years of age work as grinders and sanders of surgical instruments. “The Government of Pakistan's chart on child labor compiled by the provincial governments show 3,670 children under 17 working in this industry.” The South Asian Collation on Servitude has continued it claims of thousand’s children working in this industry.

Poverty is a symptom of the problem, but the class education system is the real problem the denial of education continues the cycle and a country with a seventy percent illiteracy rate. Doing every journey you come across a rain bow in the storm that’s what the next story is”Pakistan: Citizens and NGOs Step Forward to End Illiteracy by Zofeen Ebrahim (karachi)Wednesday, March 23, 2011Inter Press Service The man known as ‘Master Ayub’ holds classes for free, between three and seven o’clock. His classroom is a public park, and his students are street children six to 16 years of age who otherwise would be picking trash, begging, or slowly becoming petty thieves. Thanks to Master Ayub, these children have an education, and a future. All across Islamabad, Ayub bumps into young men and women - former pupils who greet him with reverence. 'It is the highest form of gratification. My former students have become nurses; hold positions in government offices like police, and even in the armed forces. There is one who is now the editor of a newspaper!' Ayub told IPS.Ayub, who holds a day job as a fire fighter, has been helping to educate poor Pakistanis for more than 26 years. He has taught some 4,000 students, and has a current batch of 280. He manages to cover only a fraction of the seven million out-of-school children the educational system here has been unable to reach.”This was a story of light and the mist of darkness it might just be 4,000 out of seven million but it’s the work of one man and the story shows there’s hope.

Just as this one man has desired to make a difference by educating children the decision has to be made to research and not buy products of child labour. And parents in Pakistan have hard choices because seventy-percent of child labourers are agriculture non paid agriculture workers who wages go to their parents while all they receive is food and shelter. “Shahzab is living with his senior mechanic and the owner of the workshop for last four years. His father handed him over to the owner due to poverty. Now his father comes monthly only to receive his wages, about 1,200 rupees (1 dollar equals about 85 rupees) per month” that’s Shahzab story as told by ILO worker.

Child labor is not just a Pakistani problem it’s a world problem that will require the effort of all people to end as has been stated the buying of such products must cease as well as Pakistan developing a solid plan to educate it’s young. And most recent report on the percentage of GDP* spent on education Pakistan came in at 135 spending just1.8 of the GDP on Education.

It’s believed that until education is given serious attention child labor will continue to be a problem in Pakistan’s most poverty ridden agriculture area where free family workers and bonded worker seems to be the only way to feed lager families enslaved by poverty. Unless the Pakistani Government decides to better educate the rural children of Pakistan. The question is “Are the World’s Children at Risk”? Yes continues to be the answer for the children of Pakistan Child labor is stealing their childhood as a rabbits steals carrots out of a farmers garden. There are solutions we must all keep working until the answer is no.

The Story of a Double Sex Crime Pimp and Police Could This be Why we Have 325,000 Child Prostitutes

2011-04-11T03:14:00.000-07:00

Why are there 325,000 Child Prostitutes in America? Is the title of a Hub I wrote that I may later post on this blog that ask this very question and doing the research I found hundred of stories like this one.It's time that we stand up against sex crimes aganist children not all of America is sick.

Nicholas D. Kristof is the author of the work below:

Jasmine Caldwell was 14 and selling sex on the streets when an opportunity arose to escape her pimp: an undercover policeman picked her up.

The cop could have rescued her from the pimp, who ran a string of 13 girls and took every cent they earned. If the cop had taken Jasmine to a shelter, she could have resumed her education and tried to put her life back in order.

Instead, the policeman showed her his handcuffs and threatened to send her to prison. Terrified, she cried and pleaded not to be jailed. Then, she said, he offered to release her in exchange for sex.

Afterward, the policeman returned her to the street. Then her pimp beat her up for failing to collect any money.

“That happens a lot,” said Jasmine, who is now 21. “The cops sometimes just want to blackmail you into having sex.”

Are the World's Children at Risk

2011-04-08T05:38:00.000-07:00

This could be the most important question answered in 2011, at a time when different organization worldwide are estimating that 1.2 billion of the world’s children are at risk about 50 percent of the child population. Defining Children at risk is awkward because in America it’s more about problem in disadvantage kids that live in the inner city the world of welfare, one parent homes, high school dropouts, teenage prostitutes, and drug abuse , kids who will never get the opportunity to experience the American dream. In the world as a whole it quite more devastating, such as having to work your whole life to pay off your great grandfather’s debt. It could be living off of less than three dollars a year, or having to walk eighty miles to get fresh drinking water as some young girls in the Sudan have to. Exploring some of the risk the children of the world face may better help answer the question. Are the world’s children at risk?

There are a host of risks the world’s children face, poverty, hunger, education, sex crimes, child predators, slave trade, and child labor problems, along with the problems of, war, which has enlisted children as soldiers ,we will look at other risk, At are the World’s Children at Risk Two ? Yes the world’s children are at risk just ask Stand 4 Kids “One out of every five people on earth is a child at risk”, UNICFE had this to say about children at risk “Working in over 150 countries, UNICEF provides children with health care, clean water, nutrition, education, protection, emergency relief, and more.” There are others that see the world’s children at risk they are NGO’s organization who aim to meet and change the conditions face by these children. Some of the conditions face by these children should be impossible in the times we live with globalization and a smaller world there are many factors that make these risk unthinkable but yet they are real. Let’s Review six of the risk the world children are facing.

Poverty: Has gotten a lot of attention and recent years as the facts become alarming according to CHIP (Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre)

“There are 600 Million children worldwide that live and absolute poverty” are the world’s children at risk. Poverty is one of the few risks that spans the world over the reason is that children born in poverty are more prone to risk Greg Duncan from Northwestern University had this to say about children and poverty “Children from poor families are 1.7 times more likely to be born with low birth weight, 2 times more likely to repeat a grade in school, 2 times more likely to drop out of school, and 3.1 times more likely to have an out-of-wedlock birth than children from nonpoor families this a classic example of the explanation given at the beginning revealing the contrast because in the world the consequences are more complex to include malnutrition, child labor, and other social development issues. Poverty is one of the most devastating risk face by children; and from it stems many of the risk discuss in this article.

Hunger: It’s estimated by UNCIFE that at least 200 million children worldwide face hunger the hunger problem touches almost every nation on the planet. Hunger is felt extremely hard in Asia and the Pacific; America’s children are not exempt from hunger as an estimated 17 million face hunger daily. One of the reasons for hunger is harmful economic systems, of the world that create food shortages because of have and have not’s. War is the cause of hunger and some countries, poverty, greed, and tribal differences in others drugs and environment in others cause hunger. As other risk hunger leads to other risk malnutrition, child labor, slavery and lack of education.

Education: 115 million children worldwide will not get and education because, of an array of risk, child labor, war, AIDS, poverty, social standing, environment the list could go own and own. World learning and organization

Working for the betterment of education had these comments on world education “World Learning believes that education is the driving force behind positive change. Making inroads to improve opportunities for the more than 115 million children not in school and 876 million illiterate adults is essential to the development of human potential worldwide”.

Education is one of those subjects that meet the criteria mention at the onset of this article while it’s a risk for all children it has variations of risk which makes it a little complicated the inner city American kid at times makes the choice to be at risk while the third world child has no choice.

Sex Crimes: One of the most horrific crime children around the world face in every nation on every continent there is a sex crime being committed against a child following will be some of the type crimes being committed against boy and girl. “Pastor Says He Had Sex With Teens To Cure Their Homosexuality.” “Children exploited for sex by tourists in Gambia” “The Sexual Exploitation of Africa's Children” “Philippines: "authorities ignore child sex trade" “FBI: Pimps force child prostitutes into underground networks” On my blog today with Williamjordan there are more headlines of crimes of sex committed against children.

Sex crimes involving teenage prostitution and America has led to Juvenile court systems across America being force to make the distinction between victim and criminal as more juvenile prostitution cases enter the system at a time when UNCIFE has estimated that there are 325,000 children prostitute in America the majority of them being girls between the ages of 12 and 17.This problem is not just and American problem UNCIEF reports “An estimated 2 million children worldwide are exploited in prostitution, with tourist destinations being among those areas with the highest Number” and the question is are the world’s children at risk.

Sex and Slavery and the World’s Children: A Heart for Justice .org estimates there are “2.5 million child sex slaves in the world today some as young as 4 and 5” sexual deviants have very little heart it could be said or is it just no regard for the young. Eighty percent of these victims are young girls but do not exclude young boys its estimated boys only make up “5 to 10 percent that put the numbers in the hundreds of thousands “ sex trafficking most be stop if the world children are to cease being at risk.

Predators: In America inner city kids are plagued with predators it’s estimated that there are 750,000 predators roaming the internet “The inner net has become a haven for child predators there are 750,000 sexual predators on the internet attempting to make contact with children. The report uses the word ‘prowling‘, which is a pretty actuate description of someone who is roaming websites looks for prey With the internet reaching the world over predators come from the world over to me their victims the numbers are staggering. If one was to research he would soon find that crimes of sex against children are numerous and alarming you will find that most crime of slavery is tied to the sex trade:

Child Labor: Child labor figures are said to be 13 million worldwide with as many as 50 million working in hazardous circumstances. We will not include the numbers associated to sex since they are mention above several risk area when it comes to children. These are modest numbers Child labor facts and figures believe the following to be more accurate “Yet, the world over, more than 132 million girls and boys aged between 5 to 14 years are employed in crop and livestock production” you will find the number vary by category.” And others parts of the world you will find a strong belief that domestic work is fitting and poses no harm especially to the female worker and prepare her for marriage here are some of the numbers and ages associated with this form of child labor. “According to recent reports, for example, some 175,000 children under 18 are employed in domestic service in Central America, more than 688,000 in Indonesia alone, 53,942 under-15 in South Africa and 38,000 children between 5 and 7 in Guatemala” Then there are the following figures from the coca industry in their use of child labor “The U.S. Department of State estimates that more than 109,000 children in Cote d’Ivoire’s cocoa industry work under “the worst forms of child labor,” and that some 10,000 are victims of human trafficking or enslavement. These child workers labor for long, punishing hours, using dangerous tools and facing frequent exposure to dangerous pesticides as they travel great distances in the grueling heat”. Are the world’s children at danger to lack labor laws that are not enforce or do little to protect them. Are the World’s Children at Risk?

Children Soldiers: 300,000 children soldiers are in the world today these children soldiers include both boys and girls. Children soldiers are involved in at least 21 ongoing conflicts to include Afghanistan, Libya, Philippines, and India this is just a few of the countries that have made the news recently for the use of children in arm conflicts. Children in Conflict made this comment concerning children soldiers “Over the last ten years, two million children have been killed in conflict. Over one million have been orphaned, over six million have been seriously injured or permanently disabled and over ten million have been left with serious psychological trauma.”As with other risk Children soldiers are expose to other risk mostly dealing with sexual violence similar to stories coming out of Afghanistan of the molestation of boy children soldiers “Afghan National Police were recruiting children. We had information about twelve-year-old conducting searches of cars, fourteen-year-olds at checkpoints, and even younger children forced into the dark world of Bacha Bazi where young boys are made to dance and then exploited sexually by the police and powerful warlords.”This just one story of the type of crimes that are being committed against children, there are also the crimes these children are made to commit against their neighbors, families, and friends.

Above are the tragedies of the world’s children where to end is a decision itself the numbers and the facts are starling, amazing, tragic, selfish, inhumane the list could go own there’s no sensationalism here no western politics, but there is western economics at play we buy the products of child labor, and we are the tourist that fuel the sex trade can the west curve it appetite for fashion and perverted sex in our own homeland there are 325,000 teen prostitutes if there was no demand for such there would be no market. And a world of plenty food 200 million children go hungry when “According to research by former University of Arizona anthropologist Timothy Jones. That 29 million tons of food wastes each year, or enough to fill the Rose Bowl every three days. Nationwide, food scraps make up 17 percent of what we send to landfills.” In a world where only a few can get a quality education even in a country like the United States you have states like Texas where your tax bracket determines your public education. Yes the World’s children are at risk, but the real question is. Why are the world’s children at risk? Most of these risks are man’s refusal to be his bother keeper.

Sex Crimes Common Risk Faced by Children Around the World

2011-03-28T17:22:00.000-07:00

One of the most troubling risk factors children around the world encounter are crimes of sex,an estimated 2 million children, the majority of them girls, are sexually exploited in the multi-billion dollar sex industry; for example in the U.S. as many as 325,000 children are at risk of commercial sexual exploitation. Children from Albania to Zimbabwe are at risk of being exploited sexuality from being sold into sex slavery to being molested by a family member, priest, teacher as well as law enforcement I have heard a story or two from a child prostitute saying she traded sex for freedom.These are the reasons that children needed to be educated of the dangers of sexual exploitation ,UNICEF suggest " Everyone needs to be involved in fighting sexual exploitation, from parents and communities to law enforcement officers and the travel industry."
Below you will find clippings from the world over about the sexual exploitation of the young mosly girls the shear number of stories and press release we hope will leave no doubt of the scope of this crime.

                  Head Lines of Sex Crimes at Risk Children Face

Oakland Tribune My Word: Our daughters are worth saving By Ryan Hunter, Oakland Tribune
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  IMAGINE THIS scenario: Your preteen daughter, going through the usual difficulties of adolescence, runs away one day after an argument about her homework. Feeling alone, she gets into the car with a kind man who offers her a place to stay.

After a few days, she begins to think of him as her boyfriend, and she doesn't resist when he gives her drugs. When he tells her to have sex with other men, she initially protests, but he beats her and she agrees.

After several run-ins with the police, she feels in need of the pimp's protection. She comes home occasionally, but each time she runs away to the street again, no matter what you say or do. Your daughter is 13 years old.

This horror story is a reality for many Bay Area families. Law enforcement estimates as many as 3,000 sexually trafficked women are in San Francisco.

FBI: Pimps force child prostitutes into underground networks

www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou080325_tnt_childprostitution.279a0001.html

In 2006, around Hillcroft and the Southwest Freeway, the teen – then 13 years old—and three other women were arrested during a sting targeting prostitutes. It’s prevalent in southwest Houston, and all too often the women turning tricks aren’t women at all – they’re girls. The FBI says many of the child prostitutes are brought to Houston by pimps.
Special Agent Walther said many of the child prostitutes no longer work the streets, but now they’re involved in organized underground networks. Just this past Saturday, for example, a 13-year-old girl was arrested inside a Dallas bar for allegedly recruiting her middle school classmates to dance and sell sex there. “One of the remarkable things that we have learned about this is that there really is a tremendous amount of money involved. There is a high demand for young girls in the prostitution world,” Lt. Ches Williams of the Dallas Police Department said

          UK a hub for European child prostitution

According to a report released earlier this week by End Child Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking (ECPAT UK), Britain has become a hub of a growing trade in children.

They come mainly from west Africa, Nigeria in Jane's case, but increasingly from eastern and central Europe too.

Their destinations are anywhere there is a demand for child prostitutes - Britain and Italy, to name but two.

"Some of the girls know they're going to be prostitutes.

Pastor Says He Had Sex With Teens To Cure Their Homosexuality:by Danielle Canada March 22, 2011, 11:47am
A former youth Pastor is out on bond today after he admitted to authorities that he had sex with teenage boys to cure them of their homosexuality.
31-year-old Brent Girouex of Council Bluffs, Iowa was arrested earlier this month on 60 counts of suspicion of sexual exploitation by a counselor or therapist.
In February, Girouex reportedly told police that he had sexual contact with four young men starting in 2007 in order to help them gain “sexual purity in the eyes of God.”

The Sexual Exploitation Of Africa's Children

In North Africa there are private "clubs", where tourists from Europe, Asia and the U.S. pay to watch young girls being violated, or participate in group sex. I first heard of this around three years ago, from a person who asked that he not be identified. He described a club in Tunisia where a large cage was centered in the middle of a room, with seating all around. In this cage was a young girl no older than 12. There was an older female present with her, and the child appeared drugged. After dinner, tables were removed, and prostitutes would walk around and once the lights were dimmed, begin having sex, as the cage was softly lit and throbbing music began. A large adult male approached the cage, and entered. The rapt audience were invited to reach through the bars and touch the child, as the man deflowered her. The fee for this nights "show" was around $1.000.00 per person. Both males and females were present, in couples, or alone.

Children exploited for sex by tourists in Gambia
Child protection experts say sexual exploitation of children by tourists is on the increase in The Gambia, despite national laws against it.
“More and more children are working in the sex industry with tourists,” said Bakary Badjie, programme officer with the non-profit coalition the Child Protection Alliance (CPA). “Sexual relations between children and tourists are shifting from hotels, deeper into communities, where it is harder to track.”

SEXUALLY ABUSED ANDSEXUALLY EXPLOITED CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN THAILAND

The Institute of Population and Social Research, Mahidol
University, estimated that the number of child prostitutes ranged from 27,000 to 90,000with the most likely number being 36,000

Philippines: "authorities ignore child sex trade"

It is no easy task to rescue the child victims of trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation in the Philippines. The authorities deny it even it exists. "The problem has been solved", they say, "it does not exist now". Journalists and human rights workers are not welcome in the office of Mayors that host sex industries in their communities in case they find the evidence of child trafficking that they try so hard to hide. My experience and the evidence gathered on video and sound proves beyond a doubt that children as young as 14 can be purchased by private arrangement. Sex clubs proudly advertise their Mayor's permit and license to operate. The girls are guaranteed to be clean of sexually-transmitted diseases. The club operator, a woman proudly told me that the government-paid health workers come to the clubs to do the tests to be sure the girls do not infect the customers.

Young Haitian girls sexually exploited in the Dominican Republic

After several days of going hungry, Marie said she surrendered to sexual propositions made by several men in the park where she begged in this resort town in the south of the Dominican Republic.

Marie, 12, said she had sex with ”many” of those men, sometimes for a dollar, while her cousins, 13 and 10, begged European and American tourists for coins.
”I was hungry, I lost everything; we didn’t know what to do,” said Marie, explaining her decision to sell her body on the streets of Boca Chica.
The three children told reporters from El Nuevo Herald and The Miami Herald that they left Port-au-Prince with the help of a smuggler after the January earthquake devastated the city.

UNITED STATES: Super Bowl a magnet for under-age sex trade

Pimps will traffic thousands of under-age prostitutes to Texas for Sunday's Super Bowl, hoping to do business with men arriving for the big game with money to burn, child rights advocates said.

Up to 300,000 girls between 11 and 17 are lured into the U.S. sex industry annually, according to a 2007 report sponsored by the Department of Justice and written by the nonprofit group Shared Hope International.

Some 90 percent of runaways and children whose parents force them to leave home fall into the trade and are often beaten, drugged, raped or imprisoned to force compliance, said a section of the report which referred to Atlanta.
Pimps tattoo girls with "$" signs or the word "Daddy" and take them to unfamiliar cities where they are more vulnerable.

Typically, pimps recruit unwitting girls at shopping centers, mall events and on the Internet. Once ensnared, shame, fear and psychological manipulation by pimps make it hard to break free.
Clients, often called "Johns," hook up with girls via the Internet, through hotels, massage parlors, strip clubs and escort services, the report said.
"At previous Super Bowls, pimps hired cab drivers to turn their vehicles into mobile brothels," said Deena Graves, executive director of child advocacy group Traffick911

Rise in sexual abuse of minors in Turkey sets alarm bells ringing Ercan Yavuz, Today’s Zaman, Ankara, 07 June 2008

www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?load=detay&link=144149
[accessed 1 January 2011]

Child prostitution is the main form of commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) in Turkey, according to research conducted by ECPAT International in 2006. It happens informally or through organised networks, and involves both girls and boys. The victimisation of boys is hardly acknowledged as it is a particularly sensitive issue. The research also revealed an increase in child prostitution in recent years, fuelled by the precarious situation of a large number of migrant families, a generally high level of domestic violence and abuse, as well as ineffective protection systems, which increasingly lead children to situations of vulnerability, including living in the streets

CEO OF LEADING CHILDRENS ORGANIZATION BRIEFS QUEENS AND FIRST LADIES IN PARIS ON MISSING AND SEXUALLY EXPLOITED CHILDREN

Madame Chirac Makes Historic Appeal to End Global Child Exploitation

Alexandria, VA and Paris, France – January 17, 2007 – Ernie Allen, the President and CEO of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), based in Alexandria, Virginia, today briefed queens and first ladies from eight nations on the issue of missing, abducted and sexually exploited children. The meeting was hosted by First Lady of the Republic of France, Bernadette Chirac, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, and was attended by Laura Bush, the First Lady of the United States; Queen Silvia of Sweden; Queen Paola of Belgium; Lyudmila Putin, the First Lady of Russia; Suzanne Mubarak, the First Lady of Egypt; Jolanta Kwasniewska, the former First Lady of Poland; Margarida Sousa Uva Barroso, the wife of the President of the European Commission and former First Lady of Portugal; and Valentina Matvienko, the former Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and current Governor of St. Petersburg. Allen’s briefing took place during a meeting of the organization’s Honorary Board of Directors.

At the conclusion of the meeting, Madame Chirac issued an historic “Déclaration de Paris,” calling upon all European Union Member States to unite in the protection of children worldwide.

Organised child sex abuse "a growing problem"

LONDON

Mon Jan 17, 2011 2:51pm GMT

LONDON (Reuters) - Child trafficking in Britain is on the rise, with children as young as 10 being sexually exploited by organised gangs, according to a report by a children's charity on Monday.

Barnardo's said sexual exploitation of children was a "hidden" issue and called on the government to appoint a minister to tackle the growing problem of children being groomed by street gangs.

"In every one of our services we have found children that have been passed from man to man, home to home and city to city," Barnardo's Chief Executive Anne Marie Carrie told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

"Children are being used, abused and thrown away for profit and organised crime," she said

We hope you have taken the time to read the clippings describing the scope of the risk of at risk children becomming sexual slaves.There are several crimes being committed angainst these children but what seems more alarming is the apparent sexual appitite of the more advantage men and women of the world.As long as there are men and women who perfer chjldren their will be a market these types need to be cracked down on world-wide if the promblem is ever going to be bought under control.