How many municipalities face a similar plight, but have been less than open about it?
Dundee were the last Scottish club to face a similar plight to Rangers, the First Division club spending seven months in administration until May.
Gaza now faces a comparable plight to that of Darfur.
While other European countries are facing a similar plight, many, including Germany and France, Europe's two biggest economies, have taken steps recently to overhaul their pension systems.
While she said she was sure that many other families faced a similar plight in this small city, their refusal to admit their poverty made it impossible to find them.
Malik Khan, 44, the founder and chief executive of Sitara Networks, a computer networking company in Waltham, Mass., faced a similar plight at the birth of the last of his five daughters.
The upper Kolpa valley was scarcely affected by last year's refugee flows, and many Croats instinctively feel sympathy for the refugees, having faced a similar plight within living memory.
This is how, when observing a photograph of three children asleep on the street, we experience a kind of moral-aesthetic double vision: we feel the injustice and brutality of the thing itself, for these three and others facing a similar plight, and, at the same time, marvel at Riis's ability to mythologize them, making each an avatar of bravery, of camaraderie, of love.
Strangely enough, many college athletes are arguably facing a labor plight not entirely unlike the one facing the officers on The Wire.
Across the Horn of Africa, there are countless children facing a similar plight.
