{"id":24501,"date":"2011-02-11T19:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T19:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today_survey_veterans_are_16_of_homeless\/"},"modified":"2011-02-11T19:00:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T19:00:35","slug":"usa_today_survey_veterans_are_16_of_homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24501","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) Survey: Veterans are 16% of homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Military veterans are much more likely to be homeless than other Americans, according to the government&#8217;s first in-depth study of homelessness among former servicemembers.<\/p>\n<p>About 16% of homeless adults in a one-night survey in January 2009 were veterans, though vets make up only 10% of the adult population.<\/p>\n<p>More than 75,000 veterans were living on the streets or in a temporary shelter that night. In that year, 136,334 veterans spent at least one night in a homeless shelter \u201d\u201d a count that did not include homeless veterans living on the streets.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/printedition\/news\/20110210\/1ahomelessvets10_st.art.htm\">Simply heartbreaking&#8211;read it all<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military veterans are much more likely to be homeless than other Americans, according to the government&#8217;s first in-depth study of homelessness among former servicemembers. About 16% of homeless adults in a one-night survey in January 2009 were veterans, though vets<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24501\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,209,106,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-military-armed-forces","category-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}