This seems like a great idea.

Bringing showers to the homeless.

Bless Doneice Sandoval.

Greetings from Appalachia...

... Fresno Ranks Number Two in poverty.

Central Valley Business Times:

Four of the nation’s ten large metropolitan areas with the worst poverty levels are in the Central Valley, according to figures released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.


With 26.8 percent of its residents living at or below the poverty line last year, Fresno ranks second in the nation, trailing only the McAllen, Texas, metro area along the Mexican border, where 33.4 percent of residents lived in poverty.

Bakersfield-Delano is ranked fourth in the nation with 21.2 percent of its residents in poverty in 2010, the Census Bureau says.

Modesto is sixth with a poverty rate of 19.9 percent. Stockton is seventh, with 19.2 percent of its residents in poverty.

Number 2 behind a border town.