archive.today • More Americans Are Ending Up Homeless—at a Record Rate - WSJ

The data so far this year are up roughly 11% from 2022, a sharp jump that would represent by far the biggest recorded increase since the government started tracking comparable numbers in 2007. The next highest increase was a 2.7% jump in 2019, excluding an artificially high increase last year caused by pandemic counting interruptions.

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“The Covid-relief funds provided a buffer,” said Donald Whitehead Jr., executive director at the National Coalition for the Homeless, an advocacy group. “We’re seeing what happens when those resources aren’t available.”

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    1 year ago

    More like, no matter what liberals do, there will be a contingent of extremists who will do anything to stop their progress.

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        1 year ago

        Easy, they refuse to vote for enough democrats to turn our country into a true liberal utopia. Without the lazy tankies dragging us down, surely we could get the 120 senators they’d need to overcome the filibuster and the democrats that just magically turn out to be against anything good passing

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      Yeah, liberals. When your politicians need to get results in Bolivia you stage a coup and depose a democratic government. When you have 2 senators playing spoiler in your own country you cross your arms and pout. The Democrats are not just incapable of wielding power, they are unwilling.

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      1 year ago

      Love to progress towards ecological collapse and war with Russia and China

      Edit: and low key eugenics through pandemic diseases, good stuff, privatized everything also, love it

      Edit 2: the sky is red, there’s smoke in the air, I opened my wallet and it’s full of blood. Love 2 be stuck in the belly of such a horrible machine, as the machine is bleeding to death