Changing the Conversation

This post is by Pat LaMarche and was originally published for HuffPostImpact on November 24, 2014. The original post can be found here.

This post was originally published for Education Week on November 18, 2014, written by Evie Blad. The original post can be found here.

America’s Youngest Outcasts—The Report Card of Child Homelessness, released this week by the National Center on Family Homelessness, documented that a staggering number of children experience homelessness annually---2.5 million or one out of thirty. Why are the numbers so large and dramatically increasing?

This week the National Center on Family Homelessness released A Report Card on Child Homelessness—America’s Youngest Outcasts. They found that one out of thirty children were homeless in our country in 2013 – one out of every thirty. This number is so large it baffles the mind.