According to the U.S. Department of Education, in the 2011-2012 school year some 1,168,354 children ranging from preschool to 12th grade were without a home. That represents an overall increase of 72 percent since 2007, just before the global economic downturn.
A total of 43 states reported increases in the number of homeless students from the previous year. Some of the states with the most dramatic increases were Maine (58 percent), North Carolina (53 percent) and Michigan (42 percent), followed by California, New York, Texas and Florida.
"These numbers are devastating, but sadly, entirely predictable," said Ruth White, executive director of the National

Just last month the U.S. Census Bureau released a survey that found that 16.1 million children — one in five — lived in poverty last year.
Since childhood poverty is directly tied to that of the child's parents, the problem of student homelessness closely tracks the unemployment rate and the health of the national economy.
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