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   Letters on the working homeless   
      
   Day laborers in Osaka, Japan. Photo: Tomohiro Ohsumi / Bloomberg via Getty   
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   Last week, we reported on the phenomenon of the working homeless — people   
   who have jobs but live in a car, in a shelter, or any place they can. We   
   received a lot of emails in response. Here is an edited sampling.   
      
   Dave Oberting, Code4Life: It's very rare to be working full time and be   
   homeless at the same time. That's why governments don't track it very well —   
   because it is thankfully extremely rare. The poverty rate nationally for   
   people who work full time is    
   less than 3%.   
      
   But the working homeless, the marginally attached to the workforce, the   
   underemployed, and the part-timers who want full-time work all share the same   
   affliction – a lack of skills. With rare exceptions, your salary is   
   generally commensurate with the    
   amount of value you add to your employer. If you're making minimum wage,   
   that's a signal that you need to upgrade your skills.   
      
   Forget college — the future is about the acquisition of higher level skills,   
   by whatever means necessary. A computer programmer is just a modern-day   
   carpenter.   
      
   Zachary Wensink: It would be interesting to look into the barriers that keep   
   the working homeless from moving to an area where they can afford housing,   
   with the same skill set. I live in Sheboygan County, Wis., where the economy   
   is booming and employers    
   are desperate for workers, and I have a hard time figuring out why there are   
   these disparities.   
      
   William N. Moore: The working homeless anomaly will continue until the   
   affordable housing supply exceeds affordable housing demand. This is an old   
   problem that housing developers have not addressed. Sleeping in an automobile   
   is an unpleasant experience.    
   I recently saw a gentleman washing his feet in the men's room at a Target   
   Store. I wonder if he was a working homeless person.   
      
   https://www.axios.com/letters-on-the-working-homeless-2519100085.html   
      
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   Shannon Vavra  Steve LeVine  Dec 13   
   The working homeless isn't just a tech bubble problem   
      
   https://www.axios.com/the-working-homeless-isnt-just-a-tech-bubb   
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