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Homeless Children in the United States

Dispossession and Rights Foreclosed

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Children’s Human Rights and Public Schooling in the United States

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In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens – a substantial part of its whole population – who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life …. I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. It is not in despair that I paint you that picture. I paint it for you in hope – because the nation, seeing and understanding the injustice of it, proposes to paint it out.

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Polakow, V., Xu, H. (2013). Homeless Children in the United States. In: Hall, J. (eds) Children’s Human Rights and Public Schooling in the United States. Constructing Knowledge, vol 5. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-197-9_2

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