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Poverty in America

Who are the people sleeping and living in public places? Why are they homeless? People become homeless
for different reasons. Usually, they cannot pay for housing.
People with little education and few jobs skills cannot earn much money. With low income, they stay poor. As housing costs rise, more and more people cannot afford homes. Around thirteen million children in America live in poverty at any given time nearly two hundred thousand children are homeless (Worth 6).
Health problems and job layoffs also keep people from working steadily. Sometimes relatives or friends are able to help until the poor find work. But without help poor people often become homeless. A high rate of divorce, and
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fathers abandoning families, leaving women and children with little or no money. There are also teen-age mothers raising children without help (9).
This belief maybe growing as a result of significant changes in welfare......

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