Raleigh, NC---Saturday, January 20, 2007 was a great day for the homeless citizens of Moore Square Park becausel local radio station, The Light 103.9FM, featuring gospel recording artist Jeff Majors, came to Moore Square Park to be a blessing to the homeless people who were in attendance.

Cathy Hughes, owner of The Light stated, "we identify with the homeless." Jeff wanted to come here to minister to the homeless, and we agreed and here we are. We all know that we are only one paycheck from being homeless ourselves."

When I asked Jeff Majors "why come here to do this with The Light", he stated, "We wanted to bring awareness as to the existence of homelessness. We did not come to bring Bentleys, cameras, or fanfares, we wanted to give these people something to keep them warm at night. I want to touch each and every homeless person here before I leave today.

Program Director, Jerry Smith, stated, "The homeless are in our hearts and in our prayers." We will continue to come down here and other locations throught the year to minister to the homeless.

As Jeff Majors, CD played out over the noise and cheers of the crowd, the staff of The Light 103.9FM passed out toiltery items, blankets, and personalized Jeff Majors sleeping bags that had his CD title on them, then Jeff passed out autographed CD's to everyone in attendance.

Most in attendance felt blessed to have been touched by these wonderful people who came out to them selflessly to attend to their needs and to lift them up.

Adrian McKnight said, "This is a blessing." It is just amazing, simply amazing."

After this stop, they were going to another park in Raleigh, then in Durham.

Jeff Majors told me, that in the passage of the scriptures, "if I could just touch the hem of his garment...", well, the homeless are the hem of his garment, and we must get out to touch their lives and make a difference.

So keep your stations tuned to The Light 103.9FM for more information to other locations and times of ministry with Jeff Majors and maybe other celebrities to come to minister to the homeless.

Jeff Majors is set to be at the Womens Empowerment on Saturday, March 31, 2007 and has a new CD coming out that he recorded with Gerald Levert, so be on the lookout for it as well.

It was a great day to have had with such caring people.

If you missed it, then you truly missed a wonderful event.

HOMELESS EMPLOYEES FILE SUIT TO STOP ABUSES OF MINIMUM WAGE LAWS

Washington DC,--- September 7, 2006 – The National Coalition for the Homeless announced today that a class action lawsuit has been brought on behalf of Washington, D.C. area homeless employees of eviction companies to stop the eviction companies’ continuing violations of minimum wage law and to recover back pay for years of illegal wages. Michael Stoops, the acting Executive Director of National Coalition for the Homeless, says, “The fact of the matter is that there are eviction companies exploiting homeless people’s right to fair wages and action needs to take place.”

The class action complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on September 5, follows a four-month investigation into the eviction industry’s wage practices, conducted by the Coalition with the assistance of the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.

The complaint alleges that, for the past four years, eviction companies working in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area regularly hired homeless employees to remove the belongings of tenants evicted from their homes. The eviction companies, it alleges, routinely pay these homeless workers only $5.00 per eviction, regardless of the number of hours they worked. This amount is far below the D.C. minimum wage ($7.00 per hour and $28.00 per day) and comparable Maryland, Virginia and Federal minimum wages. The complaint further alleges that on days when an eviction was cancelled, the homeless employees received no payment at all.

Representing the hundreds, if not thousands, of primarily homeless persons employed to perform evictions services in the area at subminimum wages, the homeless employees claim in this lawsuit that the eviction companies have violated and continue to violate minimum wage and antitrust statutes under District, state and federal law, and have unjustly enriched themselves at the expense of their employees. Through this action, the plaintiffs and the Coalition seek to stop the eviction companies from continuing such abuses and to recover the compensation the workers have lawfully earned and are entitled to under the law.

The case is being handled on a pro bono basis by the Washington, D.C. office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. Founded in 1946 by lawyers committed to legal excellence, internationalism and diversity, Cleary Gottlieb is a leading international law firm with offices around the world.