Homeless population dips, By Greg Toppo, September 3, 2013, USA Today: “Despite a deep recession and a slow, fitful jobs recovery, one key indicator of the nation’s economic well-being has quietly improved nearly every year since 2005: homelessness. The number has dropped 17% in that span: An estimated 129,000 fewer Americans were homeless in 2012 than in 2005, even after a mortgage crisis kicked thousands out of their homes…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty