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Homeless In America - College Essay

Homeless In America

" I never imagined that I would be homeless." Although I have
read this statement made over and over again, the facts behind it remain
astonishing. The facts are that there are millions of
today. Many of these people had no choice but to become homeless.
Economic problems such as being laid off work, or the rise in the cost of
housing had lead people to live on the streets. Many of the homeless are
women that have become divorced or have left home because of physical
abuse. These women have no education because they have not been given the
chance to go and get the education that it takes nowadays to get the job,
so they are forced to live on the streets. They have no family to ...

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live on the
streets. So they must resort to prostitution to pay for the food that
their young ones need to stay alive. There are many other people that
become homeless for many different reasons. Some of these people can not
help becoming homeless. Some of these people are the illegal immigrants
that come here from other places to get a better life but end up not
having enough money to make it in this hard world that we live in.
Teenage runaways have different reasons for leaving home but all have the
same reason for becoming homeless. They simply just do not have enough
money. Others are drug and alcohol abusers and disabled people. With this
list of people there must be some way that we can help these people.

There has been many programs that have been available to help
these homeless, but only have only succeeded in the short run and have
failed in the long run. There has been homeless in America ever since the
colonial times and not much progress has been made in the 200 ...

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Added: 4/22/2007 10:53:12 AM
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