America is Ignoring Homeless Families

Chris Engel 4/21/135:30 PM

"More than one-third of Americans who use shelters annually are parents and their children. In 2011, that added up to more than 500,000 people.

“In 2000, we as a nation — and the Department of Housing and Urban Development — made the terrible decision to abandon homeless children and their families,” said Volk, speaking at a Congressional briefing on The American Almanac of Family Homelessness, authored by the Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness. “Families for a decade have been ignored.”...

http://billmoyers.com/2013/04/21/america-is-ignoring-homeless-families/

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