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The book took eight years to write, and is the extension of Elliott's original reporting 2013 on the life of Dasani, a homeless black girl in New York city. [1] The book explores several themes, including the failure in the city's safety net and support for those in poverty, glaring wealth disparity, and the cycle of violence.
In December 2013, Elliott published "Invisible Child," a 28,000-word, five-part series for the Times on child homelessness in New York City. [4] Elliott expanded the series into a book for Random House as an Emerson Fellow at New America Foundation. Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City was published in October 2021.
But even with massive funding and new data on who is homeless and why, the state is struggling to see change. California has spent billions to fight homelessness. The problem has gotten worse
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The city says about 1,400 people are homeless in Fresno proper, and an estimated 4,500 people are homeless across Fresno and Madera counties, up from 2,500 in 2019. Before 2020, Fresno had no city ...
Experts say a new $22-billion plan to end homelessness in the city of Los Angeles reveals decades of underfunding and pitfalls of leaders' current approach.
According to a "point-in-time" count of the homeless conducted in January 2024 by Monarch Housing Group, 556 people were experiencing homelessness in Ocean County, a 28% increase from the 434 ...
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