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The number of people living in homeless shelters in New York City increased 17 percent in the last year, and the number of children in shelters rose 18 percent, the New York Daily News reports . More than 2,000 kids have become homeless since May, bringing the total number of homeless children in NYC to 19,000 — the highest number since the Great Depression. Ralph da Costa Nunez, CEO of the Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness, said, “If the trend continues, we will surely see more than 20,000 children living in shelters by Christmas.” Last year, the total number of homeless students living in the U.S

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From: Voting Rights Watch 2012 Voting Rights Watch 2012 and Aura Bogado Nearly half of all California voters are new or occasional voters. In South LA, one group is empowering community members to realize the significance of their vote.

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Katie Halper Let me tell about you some of the things we do at camp that Americans for Limited Government would find subversive.

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Outrage over the Boy Scouts of America’s ousting of Ohio mom Jen Tyrrell from her position as Cub Scout Leader led to the 275,000-signature petition to get her re-instated. Last week, LGBT rights supporters were thrilled to learn that BSA will review its anti-gay policy. Yesterday, Tyrrell gave CNN’s Soledad O’Brien her reaction to the news: “Just the fact that they are publicly saying they are going to review it, whether it passes or not, is, I think, unprecedented. I think that’s a huge step.” Watch it: Acclaimed LGBT ally, activist, and Eagle Scout Zach Wahls is leading the petition campaign and  spoke to ThinkProgress yesterday about his efforts. – Ben Sherman

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Hannah Moon HIGH SCHOOL WINNER: A graduating high school senior reflects on her generation’s embattled future—and its dwindling access to quality education.

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Jake Shoemaker COLLEGE FINALIST: The inability for people to live in the present may become increasingly dangerous as it continues to become more socially acceptable.

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Ashley Arkhurst HIGH SCHOOL FINALIST: A Black face in my high school would become as foreign as a repressed memory that everyone just seemed to forget existed.  

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Alex Klein COLLGE FINALIST: There’s still time to face up to the issues we stand to inherit, and our generation has the modern means to do it. Whether we can muster the will—well, that’s entirely up to us.

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Kevin Xiong HIGH SCHOOL FINALIST: Suddenly, my opinion of a record I had been listening to for over eight years was turned on its head.

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Sakib Ahmed HIGH SCHOOL FINALIST: We cannot invest more in education without making appropriate policy changes. 

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