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Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
1. 1,065,794 homeless kids
Fri Jun 29, 2012, 07:45 AM
Jun 2012

In a nation of 311,591,917 people total.

if those kids are enrolled in school, odds are they have at least one parent homeless with them. Let's say 1.5 parents.

2,664,485 homeless people in these families.

This is not counting the no doubt many kids that aren't enrolled in school. This is not counting the homeless people without enrolled children.

Almost 1% of our population is made of homeless children and their families. At a minimum. One percent might not sound like much, but when you consider the same percentage of the population owns enough wealth to buy each and every one of these people two summer homes in California, and still have bajillions left over? That's fucking shameful

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