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Wednesday, November 19th, 2014

Child homelessness in U.S. reaches historic high at 2.5 million

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Publication Date:     17 Nov 2014 at 22:26 ET
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Stephan:   I think we can safely and accurately say that the people of the United States, collectively, while they may care about their own children, or the children of their friends, do not care for children in general. There is a lot of political and religious bombastic blathering about caring for children but the actual facts tell a different story. In this country we have the highest level of physical abuse of children in the developed world. We also have the highest level of food stress with 17 million children going hungry at least part of the year. And, as this report spells out we have 2.5 million minor children who are homeless. Please also note that once again Red value states score significantly worse than Blue value states.
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One out of every 30 children in the U.S. experienced homelessness last year. That makes nearly 2.5 million children who, in 2013, lived in shelters, on the streets, in cars, on campgrounds or doubled up with other families in tight quarters, often moving from one temporary solution to another, according to “America’s Youngest Outcasts,” a report published Monday by the the National Center on Family Homelessness at the American Institutes for Research.

With an increase of 8 percent in just one year between 2012 and 2013, the number of homeless children in this country has reached a historic high, the report says.

“As a nation of wealth and opportunity [one in 30 children] is not something we should tolerate,” Carmela DeCandia, director of the National Center on Family Homelessness, tells Newsweek. “We haven’t been paying attention,” she says, and “we need to before the goal becomes out of reach.”

In 2010, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness presented a plan called Opening Doors, which stated as goals ending chronic and […]

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