Non Sequitor © 2009 Wiley Miller. Reprinted by permission of Universal Press Syndicate. All rights reserved.
The economic crisis is being felt in schools across the country, with districts reporting a spike in the number of homeless students, according to a survey undertaken by First Focus, a bipartisan children's advocacy group, and the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth.
The crisis could push two million children out of their homes over the next two years. And that number is just a conservative estimate.
The survey of school districts found that in the first half of the school year:
330 school districts identified as many or more homeless students in the first few months of this school year as they identified the entire previous year.