Just heard a story on the news tonight, apparently I am not the only one in Milwaukee in dire straights, as Milwaukee was ranked 4th behind Detroit, Cleveland, and Buffalo in poverty in the US. On the one hand I guess it feels better knowing my circumstances are partially due to external influences, but it's also very alarming as hard a time as I'm having, I do love this town and it pains me to see it suffer as it is. What was really alarming though was that 1 in 4 children here apparently only get food through the school lunch systems.