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US: ‘One false move and you’re done’: how US cities are changing for runaway kids

October 11, 2017 by Greg Cywnar

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway

US: ‘One false move and you’re done’: how US cities are changing for runaway kids
Guardian – October 09, 2017
At the age when most young people are ready to start their adult lives, Hicks was ready to end his. But then he met a “train-hopper traveller kid who asked me to smoke a bowl with him and tell him why I was crying”. Hicks confessed that he couldn’t take “being homeless in this town forever” (he still refers derisively to non-transient homeless people as “home bums”) but had no money to leave. The traveller laughed, and said: “All’s you need is a backpack, a sleeping bag, a tarp, and a piece of cardboard and a Sharpie so you can make some money. That’s your credit card.”
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/oct/09/one-false-move-and-youre-done-how-us-cities-are-changing-for-runaway-kids

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