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Surge in Homeless Children Strains School Districts
Society & Culture  (tags: USA, school, children, homelessness, foreclosure, school districts, report cards, shelters, motels, trailer parks, homeless families )

Thankful
- 62 days ago - nytimes.com
more than one million students without stable housing by last spring, has tested budget-battered school districts as they try to carry out their responsibilities -- and the federal mandate -- to salvage education for children whose lives are filled with
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Downturn Brings A New Face to Homelessness
Society & Culture  (tags: homelessness, rise, americans, humans, children, women )

Lone
- 84 days ago - washingtonpost.com
PONTIAC, Mich. -- The lowest point in Lawanda Madden's life came in February, when she woke up on the floor of her friend's run-down house in this city battered by recession. She was
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Playing Heartstrings   video
Society & Culture  (tags: children, child, abuse, rights, homelessness, society, music, relaxation, free download, sadness )

Geoff
- 166 days ago - youtube.com
I normally donate my music to help the albatross, endangered species and animals. This is something of a change. If it touches your heart please share this video with others. Children deserve a better life than this!
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"People Shouldn't Have to Live Like This": The Real Story Behind "Tent City" -- and How the Media Get It Wrong
Society & Culture  (tags: homelessness )

Steven
- 202 days ago - alternet.org
"People Shouldn't Have to Live Like This": The Real Story Behind "Tent City" -- and How the Media Get It Wrong
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SIGN OF THE TIMES: Homelessness Up as Families on the Edge Lose Hold
Society & Culture  (tags: society, homelessness, usa, ethics, economy, sadness, americans )

Cal
- 215 days ago - usatoday.com
Cities and counties are reporting a sharp increase in homeless families as the economic crisis leads to job loss and makes housing unaffordable
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A San Francisco Homeless Elderly Man Attacked By Thugs - A Hate Crime
Society & Culture  (tags: mental health, mental illness, homelessness, LarryNeal, MaryNeal, AssistancetotheIncarceratedMentallyIll, DogJustice )

Mary
- 432 days ago - nowpublic.com
Two thugs attacked a kind, elderly San Francisco man who lived near an alley in the 1300 Block of Polk Street. It was a hate crime with the phrases they used in anger, like, "Hey n**ger, why don't you clean yourself up and act like a man... bi*ch... "
23 comments
Homeless Man Being Evicted From Treehouse
Society & Culture  (tags: Homelessness )

Linda
- 577 days ago - king5.com
He tried living in the some briers for a while,and they'd break off and he'd roll over and get stabbed and it's not a good feeling, so he just wanted to get off the ground."
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Homeless Pushed Aside Around the Nation as If Sub-Human   video
Society & Culture  (tags: homelessness, human rights, gentrification, subtle violence )

Bryan
- 681 days ago - youtube.com
We are all human beings no matter what label some give to us. We all deserve the basics: shelter, food, water, and a comfortable way to sustain oneself. This is not the reality. Homeless individuals are being pushed out of the only places they can find.
8 comments
YouTube - CNN/YouTube Republican Debate: HOMELESS IN ST. PETE   video
Society & Culture  (tags: humans, homelessness, rights, government, cnn, dignity, shelters )

Cheryl Su
- 709 days ago - youtube.com
CNN/YouTube Republican Debate: HOMELESS IN ST. PETE and the right to sleep, exist outside. Not to criminalize the homelesss. National and Veterans issues included. CNN wanting them off property
13 comments
Homeless Denied Health Care
Society & Culture  (tags: homelessness, healthcare, illnesses, ethics, government )

Cheryl Su
- 781 days ago - thestar.com
With soaring rates of diabetes, arthritis and hepatitis C, Toronto's homeless are in worse shape than they were 15 years ago, a study released today says. Researchers call a perverse twist, they have less access to health care than ever before.
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Crisis: Homeless Veterans
Society & Culture  (tags: homelessness, veterans, US vets, US military veterans, homeless veterans )

RC
- 823 days ago - truthout.org
Enlightening story about the plight of veterans of all US wars.
46 comments
Feed Homeless, Face Arrest
Society & Culture  (tags: homeless, Human Rights, food, Food Not Bombs, homelessness )

Sandra
- 943 days ago - anti-poverty-activism.suite101.com
Food Not Bombs group face arrest by feeding homeless people and opposing anti-homeless laws. Consider supporting them or start your own chapter.
2 comments
More and More Americans Pushed Into Poverty, Number of Severely Poor Has Grown ''More Than Any Other Segment of the Population
Society & Culture  (tags: severe Poverty, Homelessness, FOOD LINES )

Eleanora
- 986 days ago - miami.com
WASHINGTON - The percentage of poor Americans who are living in severe poverty has reached a 32-year high, millions of working Americans are falling closer to the poverty line, and the gulf between the nation's ''haves'' and ''have-nots'' continues to wi
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