U.S. Leads All Developed Nations (In Homeless Children)

(Cartoon image is by Bill Day at cagle.com.)

I have discussed before on this blog about the huge number of children living in poverty in the United States -- slightly over 20% of the nation's children (about 1 out of every 5). That fact alone shows that our Washington politicians don't care much about the poor, adults or children -- especially the Republicans, who keep insisting of cutting funding to help the poor (while wanting to give more to the rich and the military -- neither of which needs more of anything).

But now we learn of another horrific statistic -- that 3.3% of all the children in this country are homeless (about 1 out of every 30 children). After doing a state-by-state survey, the National Center on Family Homelessness has discovered that around 2.5 million children in America are homeless (1.3 million school-age children and 1.2 million pre-school children).

If any other developed nation had this large a percentage or number of homeless children, they would be shamed into acting to do something about it. But our politicians seem to have no shame. The Republicans in the 113th Congress insisted on cutting all social programs that help the poor, and the Democrats gave in and went along with it. And with the Republicans firmly in control of the 114th Congress, we can expect further cuts -- making this problem even worse.