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HELP! I'm On The Verge Of Being Homeless
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[quote:hatch battener 422359:MV81NDA2ODhfODMwNTg0N182MTBCMkYyQw==] As a resident of Minneapolis, I was somewhat staggared to hear the new statistics out of our local school districts. In the 2006-2007 school year, there was 600 students in the Minneapolis school district which were classified as homeless. Either living in homeless shelters or out on the streets. In the 2007-2008 school year, there are over 1500 students in the Minneapolis school district who are classified as homeless, living in shelters or on the streets. The Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St Paul is an area of over 3 million people. That amounts to about 1% of the population of the US. The Minneapolis school district represents less than half the population of the metro area. So in a school district which amounts to less than half of one percent of the US populatation, there is over 1500 kids getting an education who are living on the streets or homeless shelters. And what about the homeless kids who don't make their way to the public school. And what about the homeless people who aren't kids or don't have kids? They ain't counted, and society might not look at them as kindly. An absolute travesty. [/quote]
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Have any of you been homeless? How did you survive it?
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