USA: Record homelessness among children – Republic

Bloomberg

At least 2.5 million American children were by some time homeless in 2013; an increase of 8 percent. compared with the previous year – according to the report prepared by the National Centre for. Homeless Families.

This means that one in 30 children in the United States have experienced homelessness last year, the most since such statistics are conducted.

The report was prepared by the National Centre for. Homeless Families (NCFH) based on the data of the Ministry of education (which estimated the number of homeless public school students in the United States at 1.3 million), supplemented with information on preschool children.

The authors of the report for such a significant increase in the number of homeless children blame the high rate of poverty in the United States, lack of affordable, accessible housing, the effects of the recent recession as well as differences based on race and violence in the family. They warned, however, that homeless children will have devastating effects on their educational development, or emotional health, as well as the prospects of finding a job.

The report analyzes the situation in all 50 US states, believing that the best and which the worst struggling with homelessness. Top fall states of Minnesota, Nebraska and Massachusetts, and the worst of Alabama, Mississippi and California.

In California, with a population of one-eighth of the US population, the problem of homelessness of children is extremely serious. There are as many as one-fifth of all homeless children, nearly 527 thousand. These data experts explain primarily the high cost of living in California, and especially the record-high prices for rental housing and at the same time a lack of investment in low-cost housing.

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USA: Record homelessness among children – Republic