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there is a downward trend. In the nine year period – which includes the economic crisis – the number of homeless in the US fell by almost 100,000 people.
The estimate of homeless people in America is subject to the same prestidigitation as the unemployment figures. Which is to say the US is experiencing actual unemployment of 21%.
The majority of homeless people are not those who can be counted on the street, they are all the working or middle class people who are now living in the shadows in cars and vans. A very good book on the subject is Jessica Bruder’s “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century”.
“. . . To the exclusion of the Ukrainian government and its forces. . .”
Only trouble is, after the democratically elected Pres. was over thrown and a Russian hating neoNazi as a replacement. . . It’s not hard to understand why the mostly russian residents would want rescuing. Not to mention the dirty trick was meant to deprive Russia of its naval base/port. It was probably the most transparent we’ve been in a long time.
JustSayin