February 17, 2009

I didn't know this?!?!

1. Kansas city has the seventh largest population of homeless people per capita in the US
2. On any given day in Kansas City, Missouri, and average of 615 families with 1,511 children are homeless. When annualized, homelessness affects more than 20,000 people in Kansas City; mother and children make up more than 56% of this number.
3. The average age of a homeless person today is 9.
4. Each nigh in America, roughly half of all children seeking shelter do not find it.

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