New report: Child homelessness on the rise in US
SAN FRANCISCO — The number of homeless children in the U.S. has surged in recent years to an all-time high, amounting to one child in every 30, according to a comprehensive state-by-state report that blames the nation's high poverty rate, the lack of affordable housing and the impacts of pervasive domestic violence.
Titled "America's Youngest Outcasts," the report being issued Monday by the National Center on Family Homelessness 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.
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.
Carmela DeCandia, director of the national center and a co-author of the report, noted that the federal government has made progress in reducing homelessness among veterans and chronically homeless adults.
"The same level of attention and resources has not been targeted to help families and children," she said. "As a society, we're going to pay a high price, in human and economic terms."
Child homelessness increased by 8 percent nationally from 2012 to 2013, according to the report, 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.
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I can't believe it. Dammit. 
the stats were obtained via the U.S. Census Bureau through the survey process. I'm not sure why the Fresno Bee is to be damned here. 
here, have a hit of some nice Train Wreck and mellow out just a bit. I haven't read the Fresno Bee in years so I'm not in a position to ascertain whether or not it's "the biggest piece of trash in the state." I just brought up the fact that the survey was commissioned by HUD and the survey (not the decennial census count) was conducted by the Census Bureau which is the arm of the feds that conducts surveys since it has an infrastructure already in place.
I did read the rest of the article and it does seem to give Princess Ashley all the credit for the decline. Now, I know and you know that Ashley Swearingen is a right-wing "let-them-eat-cake" kinda gal and the LAST thing she's worried about is the homeless so, yes, I see your point there.
As for the Comments, I never read them. It just needlessly raises my blood pressure.
Now, to continue my morning breakfast roll. 
