{"id":29846,"date":"2011-12-13T22:15:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T22:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/homeless_kids_at_absurdly_high_number_in_usa\/"},"modified":"2011-12-13T22:15:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T22:15:31","slug":"homeless_kids_at_absurdly_high_number_in_usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29846","title":{"rendered":"Homeless kids at &#39;absurdly high number&#39; in USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One in 45 children in the USA &#8212; 1.6 million children &#8212; were living on the street, in homeless shelters or motels, or doubled up with other families last year, according to the National Center on Family Homelessness.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers represent a 33% increase from 2007, when there were 1.2 million homeless children, according to a report the center is releasing today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an absurdly high number,&#8221; says Ellen Bassuk, president of the center. &#8220;What we have new in 2010 is the effects of a man-made disaster caused by the economic recession. \u201d\u00a6 We are seeing extreme budget cuts, foreclosures and a lack of affordable housing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/NEWS\/usaedition\/2011-12-13-homelesskids_ST_U.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One in 45 children in the USA &#8212; 1.6 million children &#8212; were living on the street, in homeless shelters or motels, or doubled up with other families last year, according to the National Center on Family Homelessness. The numbers<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29846\">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":[39,40,50,209,101,149,600,597,98,88,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-children","category-economy","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-marriage-family","category-poverty","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29846","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=29846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}