60 Minutes drew this Thanksgiving weekend to a close with a report on the homeless. Scott Pelley revisited children and families first interviewed last Spring to hear how they're doing.
It wasn't pretty.`The statistics are shocking:
It wasn't pretty.`The statistics are shocking:
- 16 million U.S. children are living in poverty
- children in poverty comprise almost 25%, 1 out of 4
- 1/3 of all homeless people live in Florida
- 2/3 of the Florida homeless are on the streets
He put faces on the stats making it all the more real and heart breaking.
If you didn't see the report, please watch the posted video above.
After a weekend of too much to eat and drink and four days off work, I sure as shit know what I'm thankful for and it's the roof over my head, the food I can afford to buy, the job I go to every day and the health my family and I enjoy.
After a weekend of too much to eat and drink and four days off work, I sure as shit know what I'm thankful for and it's the roof over my head, the food I can afford to buy, the job I go to every day and the health my family and I enjoy.
I wish the 1% everyone keeps talking about were mandated to watch this report on a daily basis until they helped put people back to work, back in their foreclosed homes and their children back in school on a consistent basis,
Link to the guide to help these children in Seminole County, Fl through Families in Transition: Seminolehomelesskids.org
