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2 picks · 1988

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II-THE HOMELESS AND THEIR CHILDREN
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about the homeless. Writer tells about a woman he calls Laura, who lived at the Martinique Hotel with her 3 children. She eventually was …

I-THE HOMELESS AND THEIR CHILDREN
a reporter at large ·

Mentioned at length in REPORTER AT LARGE about the homeless. The rate of child poverty in 1984 was one-third higher than it had been in 1976. The …