Homelessness could increase 40% to 45% by the end of the year if the coronavirus pandemic continues to drive US unemployment levels as high as predicted, according to an analysis by a Columbia University economics professor
If the coronavirus pandemic continues to drive unemployment levels as high as predicted, homelessness will increase 40% to 45% by the end of the year, according to an analysis by a Columbia University economics professor.
That would mean 250,000 more people in the US would experience homelessness compared with last year, bringing the total number of those experiencing homelessness to above 800,000.Record 20.5 million American jobs lost in April. Unemployment rate soars to 14.7%"This is unprecedented," Brendan O'Flaherty, who conducted the analysis, said in a statement."No one living has seen an increase of 10% of unemployment in a month.
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