The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty states that approximatly 3.5 million people, 1.35 milion of them children, are likely to experience homelessness in a given year. (National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, 2007) Approximatly 1% of the U.S. experience homelessness each year says the Urban Institute in 2000. That was in 2000, just think of the percentage now that the economy is bad. Just in a month of January in 2005, 744,313 people were experiencing homelessness. these studies are from the Urban Institute and they got there studies doing a national survey of service providers. Not all homeless people use service providers the number of homeless people are higher.
This is a picture of a homeless man in the cold. He is eating what he has and living as well as he can. This picture is desturbing because I can only imagine what he has gone through.
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