In the May Plan, the H+H FY 2025 and FY 2026 budget was reduced by 41 percent ($749 million across both years), and the number of people in H+H shelters from February 9 to May 5 has decreased by 66 percent (9,760 individuals)
Even so, the media campaign and pressure from wives, daughters, mothers and girlfriends does appear to be paying off, at least a little
St Paul had a line on this: "For I do not do that good that I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do, this I keep on doing." His explanation for the human propensity to sin is that it is like a form of addiction, a word my own psychotherapist frequently challenges me for using as it feels (to her) too deterministic as if I am already admitting that I have insufficient agency to overcome it, thus preparing for failure in advance
For the more the 419,000 adult Iowans who havent kicked the habit, there are a number of health consequences that make a compelling case for quitting