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(Reuters) -Hunger reached its highest point in the United States in nearly a decade last year, with 18 million households, or 13.5%, struggling at some point to secure enough food, a Department of ...
Homeless children in the United States: [124] The number of homeless children reached record highs in 2011, [125] 2012, [126] and 2013 [127] at about three times their number in 1983. [126] [needs update] The number of homeless children in the US grew from 1.2 million in 2007 to 1.6 million in 2010.
Food insecurity is defined at a household level, of not having adequate food for any household member due to finances. The step beyond this is very low food security, which is having six (for families without children) to eight (for families with children) or more food insecure conditions in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Security Supplement Survey.
Why do people become homeless? The top driver of homelessness is high rents that keep low-income people locked out of housing, said Ann Oliva, CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness.
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Homeless man sleeping in 37°F weather at the Colorado Supreme Court Building. Homelessness is a growing problem in the State of Colorado, as the state's population grows. 0.2–0.3% of Coloradans or people who live there are homeless on a given night. Denver and Colorado Springs have the largest homeless communities.
More than half of the U.S. homeless population is scattered across the country's 50 biggest cities and their surrounding areas. 24 percent of them live in just two cities - New York and Los Angeles.
In 1983, the National Citizens Committee for Food and Shelter was established to meet the emergency needs of the homeless population. In 1987, the Committee determined that a more comprehensive approach was necessary and created the National Alliance to End Homelessness. [ 1 ]