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| Posted by:Fred |
| #16 The Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal covered this: "One of every 50 American children experiences homelessness, according to a new report that says most states have inadequate plans to address the worsening and often-overlooked problem," the Associated Press reports. The report analyzes data from 2005-2006. It estimates that 1.5 million children experienced homelessness at least once that year, and says the problem is surely worse now because of the foreclosures and job losses of the deepening recession. Horrible if true. But is it true? Not so much. Believe it or not, it turns out that the majority of "homeless" children live in homes. The AP link above includes a graphic that breaks down the "living conditions of homeless children." Fifty-six percent of them are "doubled-up," defined as "sharing housing with other persons due to economic hardship." By this definition, the Meathead on "All in the Family" was "homeless." Another 7% are listed as living in hotels--a category that, in the report itself, also includes motels, trailer parks and camping grounds. We'll give them campgrounds, but when you think of the homeless, are residents of hotels and trailer parks what come to mind? Twenty-four percent of "homeless" children live in shelters, according to the AP graphic. That would seem to meet a commonsense definition of homelessness--but it turns out the number conflates those who live in two different types of shelters: "emergency" and "transitional." It's not clear what percentage of "homeless" children are in emergency vs. transitional shelters. In any case, a substantial number of the "homeless" who are in "shelters" are actually in facilities the center itself calls "housing" and are on track to finding permanent homes. The remaining "homeless" children are either "unsheltered" (3%) or "unknown/other" (10%). Among these are children "abandoned in hospitals," "using a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings," and "living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations." People in most of these categories are plainly homeless--but note how the center slips "substandard housing" in there between abandoned buildings and bus stations. A child should not have to live in substandard housing, and maybe one who does deserves help at the taxpayer's expense. But a lousy home doesn't make you homeless any more than a lousy marriage makes you single. The AP story is the work of four reporters: David Crary, who gets the byline, plus Linda Stewart Ball in Dallas, Daniel Shea in Little Rock, Ark., and Dionne Walker in Atlanta, who "contributed to this report." Despite all this manpower, it is nothing but a work of stenography. A group [National Center on Family Homelessness] whose raison d'être is homelessness has an obvious interest in exaggerating the extent of the problem. The press's complicity is harder to explain. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2009-03-11 21:30 |
| #15 Children are homeless because they're bad? What a bunch of obnoxious little snots you idiots are. You're definitely from the shallow end of the gene pool. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-03-11 19:55 |
| #14 One of every 50 American children experiences homelessness... Original: http://www.kcra.com/family/18893753/detail.html Bad ? |
| Posted by: alkalozot 2009-03-11 19:22 |
| #13 One of every 50 American children experiences homelessness... Original: http://www.kcra.com/family/18893753/detail.html Bad ? |
| Posted by: EcoggignSiz 2009-03-11 19:22 |
| #12 ahhhh the lefties are out in force. Those kids are homeless because they're bad. How's that? Take your made-up stats and shove em in your SCHIP-hole |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-03-11 18:54 |
| #11 One of every 50 American children experiences homelessness... Original: http://www.kcra.com/family/18893753/detail.html Bad ? |
| Posted by: inopsizinee 2009-03-11 18:49 |
| #10 troll alert at #9.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-03-11 18:18 |
| #9 One of every 50 American children experiences homelessness... Original: http://www.kcra.com/family/18893753/detail.html Bad ? |
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| #4 Dude, that Nina Hartley gal looks just like one of my sisters - now, that's squicky (especially since I look a bit like Ron Jeremy, at least, we share the same "short, hairy and fat" template, minus some characteristics that enabled his professional life). Note to self : don't look for her movies on Evil emule. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2009-03-11 02:56 |
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| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2009-03-11 02:56 |
#2 Oh boy, a Ziegfeld Follies girl. Thanks Fred. Hello, anybody at home? This Tutu is Too much. On second thought, wearing a Tutu is better than wearing a Teepee. OK, back to a Tutu. It's nice to get out of those Tutus and into something comfortable. Flapper in fur. Would you believe a mini dress?  |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2009-03-11 02:37 |
| #1 Happy Birthday: (A truly strange day) Dorothy Gish - died 1968 (70)" Our Hearts Were Young and Gay " (Now) Lawrence Welk - died 1992 (89) "Turn off the bubble machine" (Now) J. C. R. Licklider - died 1990 (75) "Planted intellectual seeds for the Internet" (Now?) Rupert Murdoch - 78 "Mr Fox News Network - Soros friend" (Now) Sam Donaldson - 75 "Newsman wearing comb over wig" (Now) Susan Richardson - 57 "Susan Bradford - 'Eight is Enough'" (Now) Joey Buttafuoco - 53 "Rapist with prison nickname" (Now) The Lady Chablis - 52 " transvestite - 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'" (Now) Nina Hartley - 50 "Pron Star - Registered Nurse" (Now) Believe it or not she graduated magna cum laude. This Day in History: 1917 - World War I: Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude. 1941 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act 1942 - General Douglas "Dugout Doug" MacArthur 1945 - The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll 1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the Soviet Union's leader. 1993 - Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn-in the next day, becoming the first 2004 - Madrid Train Bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid (Spain) kill 191 people. |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2009-03-11 01:09 |
