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 more.