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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Survey: 1 in 3 homeless are children

One in three of Riverside County's homeless are children, a survey released Monday shows.

Riverside Homeless Program officials said their survey shatters the popular myth that the homeless are men.

Roughly 60 percent of the county's homeless are women and children, the study shows.

“That's what we see,” said John Wolohan, executive director of Martha's Village & Kitchen in Indio.

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