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homeless inAmerica have become a se-rious national problem.Andno one seems to know whatto do about it.  \nMost Americans haveseen the homeless in bigcities-men dressed in tat-tered clothes slumpedagainst doorways,womenpushing shopping cartsthrough snow-coveredparkinglots,“panhandlers”begging passersby for mon-ey on crowded city streets.The homeless are the \"bagladies\"who wander thestreets of New York,the un-shaven men who live be-neath highway bridges in  \nLos Angeles,the familieswho sleep in cardboard box-es and dumpsters inHouston.  \nA Growing Problem  \nThe number of homelesspeople in the U.S.grew rap-idly during the 1980s.Buttoday,with hard times hit-ting the nation and jobless-ness on the rise,expertssay the number of homelesspeople is growing as neverbefore.Some cities,such asBoston,report a 13-percentincrease in the need forhomeless shelters justsince last year-and that'son top of a 300-percent in-crease since 1984.  \nExperts say that thereare as many as 3 millionhomeless people in the U.S.today.No one,however,cangive an exact count because  \n# CURRENT EVENTS\n\nthe homeless keep movingand many hide fromauthorities.  \n## A Dangerous Life\n\nBeing homeless in Amer-ica today is more than justbeing without a home.It'sbeing exposed to a numberof serious risks-fromAIDS,to murder,to deathfrom exposure.Each win-ter,hundreds of homelesspeople die from the cold.Only a few weeks ago,aspell of bitterly cold weath-er took the lives of twohomeless men in Washing-ton,D.C.Police found thetwo bodies wrapped tightlyin blankets near a city parkon one of the coldest morn-ings of the year.Last win-ter,46 homeless peopledied in Washington,D.C.from exposure.Other big  \n-Dith Pran/NYT PICTURES  \ncities show similiar  \nAll large cities have heat-ed shelters where thehomeless can spend thenight,but often homelesspeople don't use them be-cause they are afraid ordon't know about them.  \n## A Number of Causes\n\nWhat causes the humantragedy of homelessness?  \nExperts say that peoplefind thenselves on thestreet for many reasons.Many are alcoholics whohave lost their jobs andhomes because their drink-ing is out of control.Manyothers have problems withdrugs.And a considerablenumber are mentally illwith no one to take care ofthem.  \n(continued on page 2)  \nA recent survey of home-less shelters in severallarge cities.found that 33percent of the homelesswere alcoholics,25 percentwere drug users,and 34percent suffered from someform of mental illness.(Seegraph on p.4.)  \nWhile many of America'shomeless suffer from prob-lems such as these,a grow-ing number are just down-and-out.They are victims ofeconomic hard times whohave lost their jobs andhomes and descended intopoverty and homelessness.  \nHomelessness is older than his-tory.The U.S.is no exception.Butthe meaning of homelessness haschanged through the years.  \nHow bad could homelessnessbe?In 1895,a family in Somers,Conn.,heard a knock on their doorduring a winter night.There stood\"old Lyd,\"a homeless wanderer.The family gave her a meal,whichshe wolfed down.Then theywatched afterward as \"she wentwading through the snow with herbare feet and legs.\"  \nAmerican towns usually tookcare of the local poor.They eitherhad a poor house or they paidpeople by the year to feed and  \nMany of these new home-less include whole families.According to the ABC-TVprogram\"Nightline,\"fami-lies,many with small chil-dren,now make up 34 per-cent of America's homeless.  \nSolutions?  \nHelp for the growingnumbers of homeless todaycomes mainly from localgovernments,privategroups,and churches.Inmany cities,organizationshave set up soup kitchens,where the homeless caneat,and shelters where  \nFOCUS ON THE  \n## Homelessness in America:Nothing New\n\nTHE HOMELESS  \nCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1  \nshelter the needy.But the poorfrom outside the community had tofind help elsewhere.  \n(1929-41),the Targe n","cbCaireqJmTV9vJP","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaireqJmTV9vJP","pdf",2923508,"English","# CURRENT EVENTS\n## A 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