On Thursday, the U.S. Census Bureau released its state-level, county-level, and place-level American Community Survey data on income, employment, poverty, and other population characteristics in 2015. According to this survey, 46.2 million people or 14.7% had income below the federal poverty level and 20.4 million or 6.5% had income below half of the poverty level in 2015, statistically significant decreases of 2 million or 0.8% and 800,000 or 0.3%, respectively, from 2014.
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More Foster Care Youth Eligible for Family Unification Program But More Funding is Needed
The Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act of 2016 (HOTMA), signed into law by President Obama on July 29th, includes several reforms of federal rental assistance, such as expanding the family unification program for children leaving and aging out of foster care. Continue reading More Foster Care Youth Eligible for Family Unification Program But More Funding is Needed
House HHS Appropriations Bill Should Include $599 Million in Increased Funding for Children and Family Services
The Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriations bill that was passed by the appropriations subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives last week and this is schedule to be marked up in the full U.S. House appropriations committee this week provides more funding for the child care and development block grant, seven of the children and family services programs, and payments for foster care and permanency that should provide more assistance to homeless people and other low-income people, but some of these programs are funded below the Administration’s requested amount and the bill does not provide any increase in funding for the social services block grant, fifteen of the children and families services programs, and the promoting safe and stable families program.
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House HHS Appropriations Bill Should Include $636 Million in Increased Funding for Health Centers, Mental Health, Substance Abuse, and Medicaid
The Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriations bill that was passed by the appropriations subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives last week and that is scheduled to be marked up in the full U.S. House appropriations committee this week provides more funding for Medicaid, substance abuse prevention and treatment, and primary health care and community health centers that should provide health care to homeless people and other low-income people, but the bill surprisingly decreases funding for mental health and for cross-cutting activities that supplement mental health, substance abuse treatment, and substance abuse prevention activities.
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House Labor Appropriations Bill Needs $261 Million to Prevent Cuts to Job Training Programs and Provide Training and Employment Services to Thousands of Americans
The Labor, Health, and Human Services, and Education appropriations bill that was passed by the appropriations subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives last week and that is scheduled to be marked up in the full U.S. House appropriations committee this week provides level funding for many training and employment programs that may assist homeless people in obtaining employment, but the bill can be strengthened to increase the number of unemployed people and homeless adults and youth who are able to receive training and employment services.
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Report Provides Recommendations to Prevent and End Youth Homelessness
This blog post is the last post in our series summarizing the findings from our new
report, Without a Home and More: Youth Count 2015, and provides policy
recommendations for preventing and ending youth homelessness based on the
characteristics of homeless youth, causes of youth homelessness, characteristics of
youth homelessness, assistance needed by homeless youth, and obstacles to
assistance and housing for homeless youth.
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Report Discusses Obstacles to Assistance and Housing for Homeless Youth
This blog post continues this week’s series on homeless youth and the announcement of our new report, Without a Home and More: Homeless Youth Count 2015. The previous blog posts described the characteristics of homeless youth, causes of youth homelessness, characteristics of youth homelessness, and assistance that homeless and unstably housed youth need.
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Report Describes the Types of Assistance That Homeless Youth Need
Our new report, Without a Home and More: Homeless Youth Count 2015, and previous blog posts describe the characteristics of homeless youth, causes of youth homelessness, and characteristics of youth homelessness from survey responses of three thousand homeless youth at fifteen locations around the nation to provide information to assist in preventing and ending youth homelessness.
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Report Displays Locations, Duration, Episodic Nature, and Safety of Youth Homelessness
In order to prevent and end youth homelessness for the 46,000 homeless youth on a given night, our previous two blog posts have described the characteristics of homeless youth and the causes and contributors to youth homelessness from our new report, Without a Home and More: Homeless Youth Count 2015.
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Report of Homeless Youth Counts Around the Nation Lists the Causes of Youth Homelessness
As our previous blog post discussed, there are 46,000 homeless unaccompanied and
parenting youth and 17,000 of these youth are without shelter and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness has recently stated that better tools and integration of data are needed to improve the understanding of the characteristics and needs of youth who are experiencing homelessness. In our new report, Without a Home and More: Homeless Youth Count 2015, we integrated the data from the fifteen known surveys of homeless and unstably housed youth completed last year and analyzed and summarized the characteristics of homeless youth, causes of youth homelessness, characteristics of youth homelessness, assistance available to and needed by homeless youth, and barriers experienced by homeless youth in accessing assistance.
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