{"id":204,"date":"2005-01-13T11:43:36","date_gmt":"2005-01-13T11:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=197"},"modified":"2005-01-13T11:43:36","modified_gmt":"2005-01-13T11:43:36","slug":"11305","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"1\/13\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Tallulah, Louisiana I met with Darryl Ellerbee, former local caseworker for the Youth Opportunity (YO) Program.  A federally funded program, Ellerbee said a $20 million dollar grant was awarded to three parishes (counties) in Louisiana.  He said people between the ages of 14 and 21 are offered GED training and scholarship money for technical schools, and so on.  Tallulah is one of the poorest areas in Louisiana,and it shows.  Half the downtown is boarded up, a quite noticeable amount of the housing around the downtown is, at best, delapidated shacks&#8230;  We then headed to Monroe, Lousiana, which has it&#8217;s share of poverty as well.  The St. Vincent de Paul Society has established a &#8220;Pharmacy&#8221; to help.  North East Louisiana Community Pharmacy Board member Cindy Smith told me the community pharmacy distributes medication to low income people.  Nurses, techinicians and office people volunteer their time and area doctors donate samples, nursing homes donate unused medication, etc.  And speaking of the poor&#8230; Later in the day, I told Monroe&#8217;s <em>News Star <\/em>Reporter Christy Futch that 24,000 people starve to death every day in the world, which means we experience a &#8220;silent tsunami&#8221; every 6 and 1\/4th days.  Ms. Futch said she found that absolutely &#8220;shocking.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Tallulah, Louisiana I met with Darryl Ellerbee, former local caseworker for the Youth Opportunity (YO) Program. A federally funded program, Ellerbee said a $20 million dollar grant was awarded to three parishes (counties) in Louisiana. He said people between <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=204\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}