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archive.today • More Americans Are Ending Up Homeless—at a Record Rate - WSJ

The data so far this year are up roughly 11% from 2022, a sharp jump that would represent by far the biggest recorded increase since the government started tracking comparable numbers in 2007. The next highest increase was a 2.7% jump in 2019, excluding an artificially high increase last year caused by pandemic counting interruptions.

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“The Covid-relief funds provided a buffer,” said Donald Whitehead Jr., executive director at the National Coalition for the Homeless, an advocacy group. “We’re seeing what happens when those resources aren’t available.”

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[-] panopticon@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Love to progress towards ecological collapse and war with Russia and China

Edit: and low key eugenics through pandemic diseases, good stuff, privatized everything also, love it

Edit 2: the sky is red, there's smoke in the air, I opened my wallet and it's full of blood. Love 2 be stuck in the belly of such a horrible machine, as the machine is bleeding to death

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