The 74 – America's Education News Source
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More than 650,000 U.S. residents in 2023 were counted as homeless.
Homeless teens in rural Texas are at a more significant disadvantage than their urban peers, experts say.
A lack of good-paying jobs, poverty and drug abuse can be more common in rural areas.
LGBTQ+ youths were twice as likely to experience homelessness as their peers, a study says.
Service providers don't have an incentive to seek out these teens, because they have nothing to offer them.
Communities can begin to address homelessness by establishing strategies to divert teens from this path, a researcher says.
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