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More US Homeless Kids than ever before; 35.8M Slaves Worldwide, 60K in US
More Homeless Children Now Than Any Point in US History. America’s Youngest Outcasts shows that with poverty and inequality soaring in recent years, approximately 2.5 million children in 2013 found themselves without a roof over their head or place to call home. That number equals one in 30 American children nationally, and constitutes an 8 percent increase over the previous year.
35.8 Million Worldwide Living in Modern-Day Slavery: Report. The ten countries where slavery is believed to be most prevalent are: Mauritania, Uzbekistan, Haiti, Qatar, India, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Syria and the Central African Republic. India has the highest absolute number of slaves, estimated at 14.29 million. Slavery was found in all 167 countries examined in the report, including the United States, where 60,100 people are estimated to be living in slavery.
