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January 25, 1988

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a reporter at large

I-THE HOMELESS AND THEIR CHILDREN

Jonathan Kozol

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 …