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Half a Million in US Homeless, Despite Economic Growth

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For many people around the world, the end-of-the-year holidays mean family gatherings in festive homes around tables abundant with food. But millions of others mark the holidays in refugee camps, temporary shelters or just the streets. The United States is no exception. More than half a million Americans are homeless, one-fourth of them children. Zlatica Hoke reports.