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MILWAUKEE 鈥?Families shopping to get ready for back to school are beginning to learn a challenging lesson about inflation as school supply prices surge.According to theNational Retail Federation this year a family will pay roughly $864 on school supplies. Another survey by Credit Karma found that more than one-third, or 37%, of parents with school-age children said they are unable to afford back-to-school shopping due to inflation and nearly half will go into debt in doing so.On Saturday, several local organizations stepped in to host free book bag drives and BBQs all with the goal of meeting families where they were at.At the Dr. Martin Luther King Community Center, organizers hosted a stanley flask free breakfast and book bag giveaway providing thousands of meals and suppl stanley uk ies for kids. I had one parent tell me now she could buy extra groceries and I had to go to my office because then my eyes got teary. The fact that you had to make a decision whether you are going to pay a bill or buy groceries or buy school supplies for the kids, that s major to me, said Director, Dee Mccollum. I got pencils and a notebook, said Camille Seawright, who will be attending Kindergarten this Fall.Across town in West Allis, military families signed up to receive free b stanley cup ook bags and toys at the annual Operation Back to School event in Liberty Heights Park. It s kind of our way to help the Veterans relieve some financial stress with everything that we need to do to get our kids ready for school, said Debb Hftz Ford recalling more than 2.9M vehicles at risk of rollaway crashes
Every night inside the San Juan Bosco Migrant Shelter in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, not far from the border of Arizona, there are dozens, sometimes hundreds of people who have found refuge.Recently, Alma Cota De Yanez stood in front of a packed chapel of men, women, children and stanley kaffeebecher the elderly, and asked for a show of hands of where people had traveled from. Mexico, she said before just a handful of hands went into the air.When she called out Guatemala, nearly every hand in the room was risen.They are people who have traveled, sometimes on foot, from a country more than 2,000 miles away, with hopes of making it to the United States.Alma works for Fundaci贸n del Empresariado Sonorense A.C. or FESAC, a local nonprofit in the community that supports the shelter.She says most people at this shelter are from Central American countries like Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.Many of the migrants are trying to escape poverty and violence in their home country.Most at the shelter have already tried to enter the U.S. Some are seeking asylum. Others may have tried illegally, but they were unsuccessful. These are people that have been under the status of catch and release, Alma said. They are caught right at the minute they cross, and they are p stanley quencher ut back. And they usually come here to sleep. The San Juan Bosco Migrant Shelter first opened in 1982 an stanley cup d they say theyve been open every day since.At the shelter, migrants receive a warm meal, clothes, medical attention and guidance in finding
MILWAUKEE 鈥?Families shopping to get ready for back to school are beginning to learn a challenging lesson about inflation as school supply prices surge.According to theNational Retail Federation this year a family will pay roughly $864 on school supplies. Another survey by Credit Karma found that more than one-third, or 37%, of parents with school-age children said they are unable to afford back-to-school shopping due to inflation and nearly half will go into debt in doing so.On Saturday, several local organizations stepped in to host free book bag drives and BBQs all with the goal of meeting families where they were at.At the Dr. Martin Luther King Community Center, organizers hosted a stanley flask free breakfast and book bag giveaway providing thousands of meals and suppl stanley uk ies for kids. I had one parent tell me now she could buy extra groceries and I had to go to my office because then my eyes got teary. The fact that you had to make a decision whether you are going to pay a bill or buy groceries or buy school supplies for the kids, that s major to me, said Director, Dee Mccollum. I got pencils and a notebook, said Camille Seawright, who will be attending Kindergarten this Fall.Across town in West Allis, military families signed up to receive free b stanley cup ook bags and toys at the annual Operation Back to School event in Liberty Heights Park. It s kind of our way to help the Veterans relieve some financial stress with everything that we need to do to get our kids ready for school, said Debb Hftz Ford recalling more than 2.9M vehicles at risk of rollaway crashes
Every night inside the San Juan Bosco Migrant Shelter in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, not far from the border of Arizona, there are dozens, sometimes hundreds of people who have found refuge.Recently, Alma Cota De Yanez stood in front of a packed chapel of men, women, children and stanley kaffeebecher the elderly, and asked for a show of hands of where people had traveled from. Mexico, she said before just a handful of hands went into the air.When she called out Guatemala, nearly every hand in the room was risen.They are people who have traveled, sometimes on foot, from a country more than 2,000 miles away, with hopes of making it to the United States.Alma works for Fundaci贸n del Empresariado Sonorense A.C. or FESAC, a local nonprofit in the community that supports the shelter.She says most people at this shelter are from Central American countries like Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.Many of the migrants are trying to escape poverty and violence in their home country.Most at the shelter have already tried to enter the U.S. Some are seeking asylum. Others may have tried illegally, but they were unsuccessful. These are people that have been under the status of catch and release, Alma said. They are caught right at the minute they cross, and they are p stanley quencher ut back. And they usually come here to sleep. The San Juan Bosco Migrant Shelter first opened in 1982 an stanley cup d they say theyve been open every day since.At the shelter, migrants receive a warm meal, clothes, medical attention and guidance in finding