America's Youngest Outcasts: A Report Card on Child Homlessness

By
Youth Collaboratory

This report finds that one in thirty children experienced homelessness in 2013. Nearly 2.5 million children across the United States, or one in thirty, experienced homelessness in 2013, up some 8 percent on a year-over-year basis and an historic high, a report from the National Center on Family Homelessness at the American Institutes for Research finds. According to the report, America's Youngest Outcasts: A Report Card on Child Homelessness, the number of children who were homeless in 2013 increased in thirty-one states and the District of Columbia, and was up at least 10 percent in thirteen of those states and the district. Click here to read the full article.