1.6 million children in the United States are homeless There are more than 50,000 in Alberta

1.6 million children in the United States are homeless. There are more than 50,000 in Alberta (Alberta Times) According to the United States' National Center on Homelessness&#8221...

(Alberta Times)

According to a report released by the National Center on Homelessness in the United States on the 13th, there are currently 1.6 million homeless children in the United States, accounting for one forty-fifth of their peers. In 2010, there were 53,129 homeless children in Arizona. In 2006, the number was slightly over 30,000. The report released that day pointed out that this number increased by 38% in the three years from 2007 to 2010, which means that the number of homeless children in the United States increased by 448,000 in three years. Alan Suker, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and founder and president of the National Center for the Homeless, emphasized that this was a man-made disaster caused by the economic recession. Bassuk said federal and state programs related to helping homeless children can no longer be cut, otherwise more homeless children will appear. Bassuk said that we can take specific actions to help these homeless children in aspects such as housing, child care, education, domestic violence and so on. The report found that these homeless children not only suffered from hunger and cold, but also encountered various problems in physical and mental development, reading and learning. The successive traumas had a profound impact on their future development. The states with the fewest homeless children are Vermont, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and Maine. The study found that the worst conditions for homeless children were in poor southern states, including Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas, as well as in Arizona, California and Nevada, which have been hit hard by foreclosures and job losses.