New York City homeless population reaches Great Depression levels - World Socialist Web Site
Nos amis de l’Internationale socialiste ont le sens du titre. Et si c’est vrai (c’est-à-dire que la situation actuelle soit comparable en termes statistiques à celle de 1929) ça en dit long sur l’état de la société américaine.
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New York City homeless population reaches Great Depression levels
By Fred Mazelis
7 March 2013
The number of people sleeping in New York City’s municipal shelter system has passed the 50,000 mark for the first time, according to a new report, State of the Homeless 2013, issued by the Coalition for the Homeless this week.
The homeless count, which includes only those in the shelter system and not the thousands of others sleeping in the streets and the subways, under bridges and elsewhere, is based on an average for the month of January. It reports a total nightly average number of 50,135, which represents an increase of 19 percent in the past year. Of this 50,000 total, 21,034 are children, a jump of 22 percent compared to a year ago. The figure for children represents about 1 percent of the total population of children in the city.