{"id":29185,"date":"2015-09-24T00:26:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T00:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/30000-people-in-need-in-hawaii-get-free-cell-phones\/"},"modified":"2015-09-24T00:26:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T00:26:52","slug":"30000-people-in-need-in-hawaii-get-free-cell-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/city\/hawaii\/30000-people-in-need-in-hawaii-get-free-cell-phones.html","title":{"rendered":"30,000 People In Need In Hawaii Get Free Cell Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of homeless people in Hawaii have a improved possibility of removing off a streets now that they possess dungeon phones.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Jay Wireless, that now operates in 17 states, has recently <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">doled out about 30,000 dungeon phones <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe phone helped me get behind on my feet, demeanour for work callbacks,\u201d Matt Stoeltje, a before homeless male who now works for Blue Jay, told KITV. \u201cIf we didn&#8217;t have that,<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"> we wouldn&#8217;t be where we am right now.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>About 350,000 people in sum validate for a module in Hawaii.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Blue Jay\u2019s Lifeline Program<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyone who participates in a sovereign advantage program, that includes SNAP or Medicaid, qualifies for a giveaway phone. Others turn authorised by assembly certain income requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The module has reached Hawaii during a time when homelessness has turn a hot-button emanate and lawmakers have been implementing oppressive policies to expostulate homeless people out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Heeding to vigour from tourists, Waikiki recently started enormous down on homelessness by ramping adult a <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">bans on sitting and fibbing down in public<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">smash homeless people\u2019s selling carts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At a same time though, advocates have been perplexing to find <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">more tolerable solutions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But it isn\u2019t only Hawaii that\u2019s saying a arise in dungeon phone use among people on a streets.<\/p>\n<p>According to a new National Institutes of Health study, <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">62 percent of homeless youth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Experts contend dungeon phones have increasingly served as a pivotal to removing homeless people off of a streets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">\u201cOne of a many critical resources<\/a><em> \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<p>People on a streets and those with low salary are wakeful of how most their happening could change if they only entrance to a phone.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Prestwood, a maestro who was unemployed, has benefitted from Blue Jay\u2019s module and now, as an employee, helps people confronting identical predicaments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">\u201cI\u2019ve had people cry when we give them their phone,\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>?CORRECTION: A prior chronicle of this title wrongly settled that 30,000 homeless people perceived giveaway dungeon phones. In fact, 30,000 people in need have perceived a dungeon phones.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/c\/35496\/f\/677521\/s\/4a1a4910\/sc\/28\/l\/0L0Shuffingtonpost0N0C20A150C0A90C220Cprogram0Egives0E30A0A0A0A0Ehomeless0Epeople0Ein0Ehawaii0Efree0Ecell0Ephones0In0I81840A0A60Bhtml0Dutm0Ihp0Iref0Fhawaii0Gir0FHawaii\/story01.htm<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of homeless people in Hawaii have a improved possibility of removing off a streets now that they possess dungeon phones. Blue Jay Wireless, that now operates in 17 states, has recently doled out about 30,000 dungeon phones \u201cThe phone helped me get behind on my feet, demeanour for work callbacks,\u201d Matt Stoeltje, a before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-29185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaii","tag-hawaii-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}