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(7,044 posts)Les Misérables: After Recession, More Young Adults Are Living on the Street - NYT
From The New York Times - 12/19/12
Across the country, tens of thousands of underemployed and jobless young people, many with college credits or work histories, are struggling to house themselves in the wake of the recession, which has left workers between the ages of 18 and 24 with the highest unemployment rate of all adults.
Those who can move back home with their parents the so-called boomerang set are the lucky ones. But that is not an option for those whose families have been hit hard by the economy...
These young adults are the new face of a national homeless population, one that poverty experts and case workers say is growing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/19/us/since-recession-more-young-americans-are-homeless.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121219&_r=0