Article on the homeless on home page of Star-Telegram website

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Article is here:
http://www.star-telegram.com/629/story/184757.html

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The Presbyterian Night Shelter's doors open on a humid summer day, and hundreds of tired, sweaty and irritable homeless people spill inside.

Sleeping mats are snatched up; spots on the concrete floor are staked out; some angry words are exchanged. Soon bodies line the hallways. Shelter regulars use their shoes as pillows -- if they don't, they might get stolen.

"Sometimes it's like being in a closet with 100 people," said Angel Moreno, 50, lying on a mat inches from men sprawled all around him.

Such is life at Tarrant County's largest homeless shelter, where the number of people seeking refuge has swelled. In the mid-1990s, having 300 people was considered a busy night. Last year, for the first time in the shelter's 23-year history, an average of more than 600 people stayed here each night. On scorching summer days, 800 people may pack the inside.
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1. Heartbreaking

If the US would spend less on wars of choice they'd have enough money to combat problems like these.

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2. And so many people are just one financial tradgedy away from homelessness.