Showing posts with label homelessness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label homelessness. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

The Criminalization of Food-Sharing Practices

Description:
The new report, "Share No More: The Criminalization of Efforts to Feed People In Need," documents the recent known cases of food-sharing restrictions throughout the country. Since January 2013, 21 cities have restricted the practice of sharing food with people who are experiencing homelessness while at least ten others have introduced ordinances that are pending approval.
 Source: National Coalition for the Homeless

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America's Youngest Outcasts.

Description:
America's Youngest Outcasts documents the number of homeless children in every state, their well-being, their risk for child homelessness, and state level planning and policy efforts. Using findings from numerous sources that include well-established national data sets as well as our own research, we rank the states in four domains, and then develop a composite of these domains to rank the states from 1 (best) to 50 (worst). A page about the District of Columbia is also available. 

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