Worst of all, conditions for most people are deteriorating as businesses, states, and local governments shed workers and cut budgets at the worst possible time. It promises harder times ahead and potentially millions more impoverished.

It's sad that in countries like the U.S. and Canada even children in growing numbers are going hungry and homeless.

had touched my heart...

Because

"Thousands of New Yorkers, including many children, lack a warm coat to get them through the cold winter months,"

we are donating coats to homeless children...

What a good idea. .

I urge everyone to continue to support the New York Cares Coat Drive by looking into your hearts and your closets and make a donation.

Me too. . It's so sad though, that it is even necessary to have such initiatives in the supposedly richest country in the world. But those riches are just for the few, huh? Awful. The numbers in the clip are staggering. One in five American children go hungry? I mean com'on! That is just not right. .

What a good idea.

Good? They even didn't understand how terrible is sound. HOMELESS CHILDREN! Do they need coats only in bitter NY winter? How on earth kids can be without HOME?

How? I don't know. You'll have to ask an American about that. .

That was rhetorical question, TN. Don't take it personally, sweetie. You will get the same result from asking the wall. Or mountain... Or sky...

One in five American children go hungry? I mean com'on! That is just not right. .

No, children do not roaming around without supervision here. It is against the law. And they not getting hungry. They getting obese. From cheap junk artificial chemical synthetic food. And drinks. Become diabetics. Become unruly. With ADD. Because of similar initiatives and approach.

No, children do not roaming around without supervision here. It is against the law.

What you say is not true. Many things are "against the law", but so what, they happen anyway.