{"id":27490,"date":"2011-07-27T15:48:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T15:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today_recent_war_vets_face_risk_of_homelessness\/"},"modified":"2011-07-27T15:48:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T15:48:41","slug":"usa_today_recent_war_vets_face_risk_of_homelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27490","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) Recent war vets face risk of homelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 10,000 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are homeless or in programs aimed at keeping them off the streets, a number that has doubled three times since 2006, according to figures released by the Department of Veterans Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>The rise comes at a time when the total number of homeless veterans has declined from a peak of about 400,000 in 2004 to 135,000 today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re seeing more and more (Iraq and Afghanistan veterans),&#8221; says Richard Thomas, a Volunteers of America case manager at a shelter in Los Angeles. &#8220;It&#8217;s just a bad time for them to return now and get out of the military.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/military\/2011-07-25-homeless-veterans_n.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 10,000 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are homeless or in programs aimed at keeping them off the streets, a number that has doubled three times since 2006, according to figures released by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The rise<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27490\">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":[39,40,50,209,149,600,98,106,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-economy","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-marriage-family","category-military-armed-forces","category-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27490","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=27490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}