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Homeless Veterans
Homeless Veterans in America
In the United States, there are more than enough resources to serve all of the people of this country, but we still have homeless citizens that are trying to survive. They have the same living conditions as of those in developing countries. As of 2003, more than 275,000 veterans were sleeping under bridges and now the amount is definitely still on a bit of a rise. There is a pretty high amount of homeless veterans for the century that we live in and an endless amount of ideal opportunities that are offered. If there is help out there for such citizens, then why is there still a rise of homeless people and veterans especially?
The issues having to do with homelessness in America is that, there is so much money to benefit the costs of guns and armor for the military, but then when veterans come back from being deployed, many of them still go homeless. The reason for this is that many veterans enter the military at such a young age, being that they are recruited right after high school or possibly during high school. In this day and age, aside from the experience and certificates received in the military branch that they join; degrees and job training is what is required to get a decent paying job. Also, there are people that do not have high school diplomas at all. These people could have lived
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(2001)P.1 Non-homeless veterans have more of a connection with their childhood and how they were brought up. They cause to their effect is to either you’re born poor and you stay poor or, you’re raised poor and you don’t know how to get out of poverty for your own several reasons. Some have mental illnesses, or just weren’t taught well. The homeless veteran is homeless because when you come out, you either just have high school diploma and maybe some certifications or maybe nothing but training. In this day and age, to find a decent paying job, at least a bachelor's degree is

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