Another face of the U.S. recession: homeless children

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http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/12/23/usa-homeless-idINDEE7BM0D720111223?type=economicNews

MIAMI - As her mother sat in a homeless shelter in downtown Miami, talking about her economic struggles and loss of faith in the U.S. political system, 3-year-old Aeisha Touray blurted out what sounded like a new slogan for the Occupy Wall Street protest movement.

“How dare you!” the girl said abruptly as she nudged a toy car across a conference room table at the Chapman Partnership shelter in Miami’s tough and predominantly black Overtown neighborhood.

There was no telling what Aeisha was thinking as her 32-year-old mother, Nairkahe Touray, spoke of how she burned through her savings and wound up living in a car with five of her eight children earlier this year.

But how dare you indeed? How does anyone explain to kids like Aeisha and countless others how they wound up homeless in the world’s richest nation?

I wish I could post the whole thing, please go and read this in depth report. For many children, this won't be the happiest of holidays.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. We have so many homeless in this country, and so many living in poverty

If the media focused on these, we'd have a realistic view on what is going on in this country, but of course, they won't because it might provoke the country to change.

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3. I guess it is up to us to get the information out there.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

5. We can't rely on the media at all. That's why movements like Occupy are so important

They force the media to report it, whether they want to or not.

[limpyhobbler]

2. and millions more are just one missed paycheck away from being homeless. it could happen to anybody

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9. That is very true.

Scary times.

[PDJane]

4. I don't know how people like Gingrich dare.....

It leaves me hurt and infuriated when he tells children that they don't know how to work unless it's illegal...and they should become janitors at seven or eight.

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7. The 1% live in another reality.

[T S Justly]

6. K&R (nt)

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8. K&R nt

[Cal Carpenter]

10. 38 percent jump in child homelessness since 2007

Nearly half of Americans are low-income or in poverty.

It's indefensible. How anyone can deny that it is this fucking bad is beyond comprehension.

This is the best we can do? While 6 members of one family have the same amount of wealth as 30% of the population?

Fuck this noise, man.

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13. The numbers are staggering.

But yet we see people who say we're better off than a third world country. I don't know man, from where I'm sitting, we're well on our way. We need a massive program to aid people, children are going to start dying, if they haven't already.

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11. This is the fire beneath our feet that will cause us to change this damaged system for the better.

This kind of heartless capitalism is going the way of the dodo and is being replaced by demands for people-oriented values.

[prepperdad]

12. Not sure about that

Human greed and heartlessness might be an innate characteristic of the species. I don't think a fully socialist system could every work as long as we are human.



[url]http://www.survivingeconomiccollapse.net/[/url]

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14. What we have now is total shit though.

I don't see a down side in at least trying.

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15. People are getting sick enough of this to start building a better way

and taking that task into their own hands. Watch the trend