In once-booming Northern Virginia suburbs, children who never had to worry about having a roof over their head don't know where they will sleep tonight.
In Cincinnati, newly-homeless families are splitting their children up among relatives because they can't find shelter together, much less feed everyone.
In Las Vegas, sons and daughters of the city's housekeepers and kitchen workers -- already living on the margin of the American economy – increasingly rely on "weekend food bags" from their school in order to feed themselves from Friday afternoon to Monday morning, when they can eat a subsidized school breakfast.
Welcome to the economic crisis for thousands of Americans too young to have a mortgage, a retirement account, or the right to vote.
Read the rest of the article, Economy's Silent and Heavy Toll on Children: Homeless Rates Among Children on the Rise.
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