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Article: SEN. WATERMAN: NUMBER OF HOMELESS YOUTH GROWING IN INDIANA
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 10, 2007
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The Indiana State Senate Republicans issued the following news release:
Sen. John Waterman (R-Shelburn) said because the issue is so hard to define, estimates of homeless youth in the United States range from the tens of thousands to more than one million. Waterman serves on a state panel created to study the issue of missing children and is eager to hear testimony from a variety of experts regarding the issue when the Interim Study Committee on Missing Children convenes Tuesday, Sept. 11, at 1 p.m.
According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, many factors including poverty, mental illness and substance abuse contribute to the increasing number of homeless youth in the United ...