Here’s what we ought to be talking about: 600 kids. The District has set a dubious new record for the number of homeless kids crammed inside a scary, abandoned hospital that serves as the city’s makeshift family homeless shelter.
There are about 600, according to a nightly census done by the Community Partnership for the Prevention of Homelessness.
Stop and think about that. Six hundred kids with chubby cheeks and Spider-Man sneakers and Dora hats are beginning their journey in life on an army cot in a cafeteria or an old hospital bed in a city shelter. And that’s an improvement from the time they spent sleeping in cars, bus shelters, Metro stations, apartment-house lobbies or on a different couch every night.
This, of course, is happening in the same city now rolling in a $417 million budget surplus and on track for a $240 million surplus in the coming year.
TVNL Comment: Yeah.. just another example of American exceptionalism. As of the last official count, about 633,782 people experience homelessness on any given night in the United States. Makes a person proud... right? Just asking...
In the spring of 1963, a prominent civil rights leader led dozens of protesters on a...
A powerful storm system rumbled through the Plains and upper Midwest on Sunday, spawning tornadoes that...
People convicted of crack cocaine offenses have a right to resentencing hearings under a 2010 law...
