The homeless get counted
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A new national survey is expected to reveal that efforts to end chronic homelessness in the US by 2011 are behind schedule.
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Description: The US Census Bureau releases new data that shows the number of Americans living in poverty rose last year by 1.3 million people.
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ONTARIO, California  - Between railroad tracks and beneath the roar of departing planes sits "tent city," a terminus for homeless people. It is not, as might be expected, in a blighted city center, but in the once-booming suburbia of Southern California.
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WASHINGTON - The number of Americans living in poverty increased by 1.3 million last year, while the ranks of the uninsured swelled by 1.4 million, the Census Bureau reported Thursday.    It was the third straight annual increase for both categories...
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The state ordered New York CityÂs welfare agency to increase the rent contribution it requires from about 2,200 poor adults who live in government-subsidized buildings and have H.I.V. or AIDS.
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Housing, economic slumps may portend rise in ranks of region's homeless, survey shows.
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Â· Leniency urged for failure to declare donations  Â· New attack over illegal immigrants' NI numbers
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In this courtroom, there is no witness box, no raised bench for the judge. The lawyers and clerks sort through files at folding tables, while dozens of defendants sit in stackable chairs. Homeless court is now in session at the St. Vincent de Paul shelter.
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By MICHAEL ARTZ  Eight formerly homeless families were supposed to move into a newly renovated building on Joshua Street in Battery Park. Instead, all of the families who lived in the blocks around the building are looking for homes themselves.
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By Melanie D. Scott, Detroit Free Press  Feb. 4--For nearly 20 years, the Macomb County Rotating Emergency Shelter Team has worked to provide temporary shelter and food to the homeless throughout the county.
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This is a boomtown, but it is also scattered with signs of bust &#151; namely, homeless people. And the city is taking a hard line against them.
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The number of city residents relying on food from charities and unable to feed their families is rising, according to a report issued by an advocacy group.
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Social workers in Paris were astonished to find more than 68,400 euros (94,250 dollars) on a homeless woman when they moved her off the street last week, police said.
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The nation's foreclosure crisis has led to a painful irony for homeless people: On any given night they are outnumbered in some cities by vacant houses, and some street people are taking advantage of the opportunity by becoming squatters.
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The number of Americans living in poverty increased last year, with nearly 36 million people below the poverty line, 1.3 million more than last year, the US Census Bureau reported yesterday.
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The government has revealed there is a record 100,000 homeless families in Britain. What should be done to help?
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Nearly four decades ago, psychologist Stanley Milgram had a volunteer stand stock still on a busy New York sidewalk and look up at the sky. About one in every 25 passersby stopped to look up, too. When five volunteers were recruited to sky-gaze, nearly one in five passersby stopped to look up.