US Homeless Student Population Reaches 1.5M, The Highest In A Decade
Source: The Guardian
The number of public school students experiencing homelessness in the US has increased 15% in the past three years, reaching its highest number in more than a decade. More than 1.5 million students reported experiencing homelessness during the 2017-18 school year, according to a study by the National Center for Homeless Education, with California at the forefront with 263,000 students.
The 2017-18 number was the highest number that the NCHE has reported since it began tracking this data in 2004, George Hancock, the center director, told the Guardian. Were seeing it throughout the country, he said. The majority of homeless students, whose ages range from pre-kindergarten at age 3 to grade 12 at age 18 or older, reported that they were forced to stay with friends or relatives due to loss of their primary housing or economic hardship.
More than 182,000 students reported living in shelters, transitional housing or were awaiting foster care a 2% decrease from previous years. However, the number of students living in unsheltered situations, such as on the streets, spiked by 137% to more than 102,000 in the past three years.
The new homeless student count reflects a much more serious uptick in the homeless population than that of the US Department of Housing and Urban and Developments 2019 point-in-time estimates, which adheres to a different definition of what constitutes homelessness. The 2019 annual homeless assessment reported that the homeless population increased nationwide by 3% to more than 567,000, with more than 107,000 under the age of 18...
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/04/us-homeless-student-population-homelessness
Experts think factors include housing costs to natural disasters. Students that are considered unaccompanied homeless youth make up 8.6% of the total count, meaning the majority of homeless students are homeless with their families.
Housing instability can severely affect a childs development and ability to learn. And whats difficult for students that are facing homelessness is that everything is so up-in-the-air, said one specialist and how stability and success are difficult to attain.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)the people who don't care about kids in cages won't care about homeless kids either
ck4829
(35,091 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,995 posts)groundloop
(11,522 posts)Not that I for one instant believe tRump has done ANYTHING to boost the economy, he's simply taking credit for the efforts of his predecessor.
jcmaine72
(1,773 posts)One homeless person at a time.
I guess our country won't be just great in the eyes of the MAGAts, but positively grand when we're all in the friggin' street, including them.
Grokenstein
(5,727 posts)"...according to figures pulled from my butt, 'the blacks' have more work than any time since slavery!! ...Thank me!!"
yaesu
(8,020 posts)SunSeeker
(51,698 posts)DBoon
(22,397 posts)What is wrong with the US media?