A Critical Eye on the Causes of U.S. Kid Homelessness

            The National Center on Family Homelessness released some shocking statistics based on federal data this week—1 in 30 children in America is homeless, 2.5 million kids—1/5 of them in California.

            NCFH blamed 1) the high poverty rate, 2) lack of affordable housing, and 3) the lingering effects of the “Great Recession,” but left out some of the real reasons: i.e. indigent immigrants.

As the President is about to legitimatize a great raft of people who have come here to have kids (over the border or with legit-now-expired-visas for purpose of obtaining citizenship) it is not cool to mention this. I.e. A Korean kid who can’t go to college, we heard boo-hooing last evening,

A couple of other major contributing factors, one alluded to in No. 2 of NCFH official reasons is the “Great Bank Bailout.” The government saw fit to bail out the very people who caused the “Great Recession,” but left many middle class homeowners blowing in the wind, and as know, the 1% is thriving, the American Middle Class is dwindling.

Marketplace, a financial program got closest to another real reason: They pointed out that two parents would each have to earn $28 an hour to afford the average 2-bdrm apt. in California and minimum wage is a fraction of that. The commentator concluded “Childhood homelessness needs to be a priority.” Does that mean that what’s left of the Middle Class has to fix it?  Or that we are finally going to hold the people who created the problem responsible?

That I don’t know. What I do know is you need a Critical Eye to listen to the news!