From: The Economic Collapse
By Michael Snyder
December 9, 2013
At
a time when Wall Street is absolutely swimming in wealth, New York City
is experiencing an epidemic of homelessness. According to the New York Times,
the last time there was this many homeless children in New York City
was during the days of the Great Depression. And the number of homeless
children in the United States overall recently set a new all-time
record. As I mentioned yesterday,
there are now 1.2 million public school kids in America that are
homeless, and that number has gone up by about 72 percent since the
start of the last recession. As Americans, we like to think of
ourselves as "the wealthiest nation on the planet", and yet the number
of young kids that don't even have a roof over their heads at night just
keeps skyrocketing. There truly are "two Americas" today, and
unfortunately most Americans that live in "good America" don't seem to
really care too much about the extreme suffering
that is going on in "bad America". In the end, what kind of price will
we all pay for neglecting the most vulnerable members of our society?If you live in "good America", I very much encourage you to read an excellent piece about homelessness in New York City that was just published in the New York Times. What some young kids have to go through on a nightly basis should break all of our hearts...
She wakes to the sound of breathing. The smaller children lie tangled beside her, their chests rising and falling under winter coats and wool blankets. A few feet away, their mother and father sleep near the mop bucket they use as a toilet. Two other children share a mattress by the rotting wall where the mice live, opposite the baby, whose crib is warmed by a hair dryer perched on a milk crate.Could you imagine having your own family live like that? The name of the little girl in the story is Dasani, and every night her family sleeps in a city-run homeless shelter that sounds like it is straight out of a horror movie...
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