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Invisible Nation : Homeless Families in America by Schweid, Richard is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"By the second or third day that you’re homeless, in the car with all your clothes, your pots and pans, everything, having to wash yourself in a public rest room, you logically start to feel dirty. You prefer to use the drive-through [at fast-food restaurants] where no one will see you. You begin to hide your family."—__Invisible Nation__ More than 2.5 million children are homeless in the United States every year. In every state, children are living packed in with relatives, or in cars, or motel rooms, or emergency shelters, the only constant being too many people in too little space. In a vividly-written narrative, experienced journalist Richard Schweid takes us on a spirited journey through this "invisible nation," giving us front-row dispatches. Based on in-depth reporting from five major cities, __Invisible Nation__ looks backward at the historical context of family homelessness, as well as forward at what needs to be done to alleviate this widespread, although often hidden, poverty. __Invisible Nation__ is a riveting must-read for anyone who wants to know what is happening to the millions of families living at the bottom of the economy.

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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Schweid, Richard
Publisher
University of California Press
Published
2019
Language
EN
ISBN
9780520292673
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Sociology, Social Science, Social_sciences
Updated
2026-03-24

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