President Obama's FY 2011 budget ignores the reality of surging numbers of homeless students in schools across America. He proposes $65 million, the same amount budgeted for the past 2 years, which doesn't begin to reach the 1 million + homeless kids in schools. The McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth (EHCY) program works! ...

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Every week across the U.S., mobile home fires kill children and adults. In some cases, mobile homes have been used to replace government-subsidized housing, and families rent substandard units, often paying far more than they are worth, because of the lack of affordable housing. Many households with limited incomes end up in mobile homes, which...

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Kids without homes and kids without families need all the help they can get, especially access to secure educational opportunities. For most homeless kids, and those in foster care, they are needlessly ripped from their schools, or worse, kept out of school all together. School is the one stable factor in their lives. And this population doesn'...

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Especially during brutally cold months, households struggling to survive often take in homeless family or friends, those "having hard times," to keep people from freezing on the streets. A family having "hard times" (translation: homeless due to hardship) in Starkville, Mississippi was recently taken into the small apartment of India Williams, ...

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REACH is a snappy 11-minute video narrated by LeeAnn Trotter, NBC-5 Chicago reporter, that explains the basics of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Act so parents (including those incarcerated) and caretakers of their children and others will understand how to make this law work for the benefit of children who are in a homeless situation. E...

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Often, even in the Change.org blog, or in other media, issues pertaining to homeless kids are distorted. Stereotypes need to be erased before we can address root causes of homelessness for families, teens and adults. I'll look for the opportunities and respond.

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