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Homelessness among US children at all-time high

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The number of homeless children in the United States has surged in recent years to an all-time high, amounting to one child out of every 30, according to a comprehensive state-by-state report.Titled "America's Youngest Outcasts," the report being issued Monday by the National Center on Family Homelessness (NCFH) calculates that nearly 2.5 million American children were homeless at some point in 2013. The number is based on the Department of Education's latest count of 1.3 million homeless children in public schools, supplemented by estimates of homeless pre-school children not counted by the DOE.


Child homelessness increased by 8 percent nationally from 2012 to 2013, according to the report (PDF), which warned of potentially devastating effects on children's educational, emotional and social development, as well as on their parents' health, employment prospects and parenting abilities.
NCFH — a part of the private, nonprofit American Institutes for Research — says remedies for child homelessness should include an expansion of affordable housing, education and employment opportunities for homeless parents, and specialized services for the many mothers rendered homeless due to domestic violence.
The problem is particularly severe in California, which has one-eighth of the U.S. population but accounts for more than one-fifth of the homeless children with a tally of nearly 527,000.


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:( With a country so rich in natural resources its a damn shame we cannot take care of those who are the least among us. "The measure of a civilization is how it treats its weakest members."


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:( With a country so rich in natural resources its a damn shame we cannot take care of those who are the least among us. "The measure of a civilization is how it treats its weakest members."

We have had about six years now of one of the most extreme wrong-wing administrations this nation has ever had. And as the article notes, the problem is particularly severe in California, which is one of the most relentlessly wrong-wing states in the nation.

Politics have consequences.

Your side owns this.
 
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You can't follow stupid policies like minimum wage and avoid this kind of fallout. But the liberals persist in populist politics and society's weakest members, as you call them, pay the price for Democrats' votes.
 
It seems to me that a large portion of the homeless children are runaways. They'd rather be on the streets than be abused on a daily basis.
 
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The shame, is that the people who supposedly care about the least among us are the folks who fight tooth-n-nail to stop the harvesting of those natural resources.

Energy production is ripe for compromise that could benefit the sacred cow social-welfare programs that the Liberals insist are vital to our survival as a country, but Liberalism is so counter-productive that Liberals are their own worst enemies.
 
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Buch of slackers that cant pull their weight. Send them to the fields I say... and factories.. and if that aint enough to the poor house where they can crush rocks.
 
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Obviously with all the decades of liberal safety net programs, a liberal in the WH, and food stamps at an all time high..................these prorams are udder failure.
 
Counting those in shelters, hotels or motels as "homeless" is not very honest. Much like saying that those receiving "safety net" benefits bringing them above the FPL are still "really" still below the FPL because the cash value of that aid is not counted.

Form the OP link's referenced report's homeless definition:

living in a shelter providing temporary living arrangements (including hotels and motels), congregate shelters and transitional housing;
 
Obviously with all the decades of liberal safety net programs, a liberal in the WH, and food stamps at an all time high..................these prorams are udder failure.
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how much better would those kids be without those programs ... and why?
 
Counting those in shelters, hotels or motels as "homeless" is not very honest. Much like saying that those receiving "safety net" benefits bringing them above the FPL are still "really" still below the FPL because the cash value of that aid is not counted.

I suppose it depends on what point one is trying to make.

In some contexts, I can see it as entirely legitimate to describe someone as “poor” who is receiving outside support in order to maintain a comfortable standard of living, but who is not able to earn enough on his own to be self-sufficient. Such a situation can be used to support a claim about how well our society takes care of those who cannot take care of themselves, but it remains, nevertheless, highly unfortunate when one is not able to honestly earn his own living.
 
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how much better would those kids be without those programs ... and why?

Being as access to long-term wealth has been harder and harder to attain as the years have passed methinks they wouldnt
 
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Critics contend that HUD's method grossly underestimates the extent of child homelessness and results in inadequate resources for local governments to combat it. They prefer the Education Department method that includes homeless families who are staying in cheap motels or doubling up temporarily in the homes of friends or relatives.

When you stay in a cheap motel or live in the homes of friends and relatives, you aren't homeless by the definition I was raised on.
 
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6 recovery summers in, with a POTUS who WILL NOT REST, and just oodles of hope and change.

This is what voting democrat gets you.
 
I suppose it depends on what point one is trying to make.

In some contexts, I can see it as entirely legitimate to describe someone as “poor” who is receiving outside support in order to maintain a comfortable standard of living, but who is not able to earn enough on his own to be self-sufficient. Such a situation can be used to support a claim about how well our society takes care of those who cannot take care of themselves, but it remains, nevertheless, highly unfortunate when one is not able to honestly earn his own living.


The point they are trying to make is that folks living in shelters are just as homeless as one living on a steam grate or park bench.

The point that I was trying to make is that one is not homeless simply because they are unable to pay their rent by working. Whether in housing funded by insurance, gov't assistance or charity if they are not on the streets or camping in a tent or car then they are not homeless. If you have decent shelter that is simply temporary then you are not homeless.
 
6 recovery summers in, with a POTUS who WILL NOT REST, and just oodles of hope and change.

This is what voting democrat gets you.

This has been a growing problems since Reagan. Please do your research for crying out loud.

And please tell me what republican policy has been brought to the table to solve this?

Lowering taxes and getting rid of regulations ????
 
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Hmmmm.......so its really bad in California ?

In the left wing State thathas the highest poverty rates in the Country ?
 
I think everyone is missing the point. The problem is trickle down economics. This massive amount of wealth the rich are making now isnt being trickled down. Its being hoarded at the top. Trickle down economics, and neo-liberal economics is ****ing this country and ****ing the mass amount of people.
 
This has been a growing problems since Reagan. Please do your research for crying out loud.

And please tell me what republican policy has been brought to the table to solve this?

Lowering taxes and getting rid of regulations ????


Taxes and regulations have gone UP in California.

They've been hit especially hard by poverty.
 
:( With a country so rich in natural resources its a damn shame we cannot take care of those who are the least among us. "The measure of a civilization is how it treats its weakest members."
Of course the percentage of homelessness among children is up in the U.S. compared to about eight years ago.

It's because the percentage of homelessness among their parents is up.

And why is it up?

Because of the liberal and conservative strange-bedfellow alliance to push sub-prime security mortgages on those who couldn't really afford even those.

And, they really started to push it around the turn of the century when off-shoring and out-sourcing American jobs were also being pushed.

So sub-primers, as they were called, got their house .. and they began to furnish it .. .. and, one by one at first, these warehouse workers, manufacturing workers, transportation workers, carpenters, iron workers, plumbers, and the like, they began to lose their job to people in other countries overseas.

And then the job-loss rate picked up, as companies had to compete, and wage-slaves in other countries were cheaper to hire than sub-primers in America ..

.. And soon by the hundreds .. then the thousands .. .. sub-primers lost their jobs .. and couldn't find work any more .. and defaulted on their loans when the variable rates went up.

Meanwhile, very unscrupulous Wall Street types saw the writing on the worthless securities wall, and they concocted one of the biggest frauds in U.S. financial history, creating the sub-prime securities fiasco that crashed us all into the Great Recession.

When no one could then get their weekly business loan, they laid people off, and they closed their doors .. and unemployment shot up to 25%, the accurate rate.

Millions of adults couldn't find work .. and they became homeless .. they and their children.

Today, the accurate unemployment rate is down to around 12 percent perhaps -- it's hard to tell, since so many have fallen off the radar.

But, the percentage of living-wage jobs compared to before the Great Recession is way down, many still off-shored and out-sourced to wage slaves in other countries, not to mention in-sourced wage-slave illegals.

So, yes, there are many more homeless Americans in the U.S. then their were .. many more .. and, of course, that includes their children.

What's the solution?

I'm not sure.

But, one thing's certain: it won't involve any concocted by the wings of the political spectrum -- they're the ones who got us into this increased homeless mess in the first place.
 
Your side owns this.

Liberals invented homelessness, apparently.

It took one post before someone decided to (in as hackish a fashion as possible) make it a partisan issue. One.
 
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It seems to me that a large portion of the homeless children are runaways. They'd rather be on the streets than be abused on a daily basis.

That's very likely true.
 
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