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e at the Homeless Voice try to save you money and prevent you from becoming homeless if you have an accident. A lot of time people have insurance that they do not need as well as not having insurance they may need. We highly recommend a family to have disability insurance. Don’t pick a plan that has a length of coverage. For instance if the plan only offers you disability insurance for two years don’t pick that plan. Pick a plan that states long term, and long-term means they will pay you until you are able to work again. If you can’t work, the plan should continue to pay you until your social security or disability comes to play. The following is a list of Insurance tips that will help keep a roof over your head and prevent the rain from hitting your head if you should have a real emergency such as a permanent sickness or injury. -Staff Reporter If you're like most people, you don't relish spending money on insurance. Sure, you need it, but it's not bright and shiny, you can't drive it, and no one is going to admire it. So it's all the more galling (Continued on page 11)
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fter a long day of work standing in the hot Florida sun collecting change, most clients find it difficult to put on a happy face and ask people how they’re doing. Not Roxanne Morales. The 4’11” blonde always comes into the office bubbly, as if she just awoke from a refreshing nap. She cheerfully chats with the staff and is always polite. The outgoing, middle-aged woman may be tiny, but her voice is loud. With a mixed sort of accent, Morales was born in Louisiana and raised in West Virginia before moving to New York.
From the time she was born, she was no stranger to addiction in her life. Although she would not personally deal with it until later in life, as a child, she never knew her father and her mother long-struggled with alcoholism. When she was young, her mother moved to New York, leaving her with her wealthy grandparents in West Virginia. Her sister, seven years her senior, stayed with her mother. For the most part, her childhood was much like anyone else’s. Growing up, Morales was a popular cheerleader, and she started to party as a teen-
Dear Roxanne, I am so proud of your accomplishments. Love, Mark
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he Homeless Voice is now r e a d y t o l a u n c h www.homelessvoicemall.com; this is the place where you can do all your shopping. This is also the place that gives the Homeless Voice commission on every item you purchase. If you are using the Internet to make your flight arrangements or even your hotel reservation, first go to www.homelessvoicemall.com and go to one of the airlines or special Internet sites that offer low airfares. If you need to have unlimited long distance simply to go to www.homelessvoicemall.com and buy your telephone service. Our agency has never taken governmental money; we have always created little businesses that the community needs and then we take
the profits and place them back in to the shelter system. When you combine all your working expenses to help run other businesses it ends up lowering you’re cost to do business. When you have no shareholders to please and the business is low cost to operate it is a smart business plan. It is our goal to market our Homeless Voice Mall to everyone, everywhere so everyone can buy off the mall and then we get a percentage of the Internet shopping cart. When I first saw the icon on the Internet “shopping cart” I was a little confused, how about you? . Now I know that the shopping cart is for all the items you purchased on the Internet. So when you buy items and place them into your Internet shopping cart you will help allow a homeless person not live out of their
“You all have been real good to the Homeless Voice and we want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts.” shopping cart. This exchange of shopping carts will be our theme or what some people may call a slogan. (Continued on page 8)