"We're leaving the homeless behind," said Representative Peter Welch, Democrat of Vermont.
Seventeen years after co-founding The Big Issue, John Bird's appearance as he sits in the afternoon sunshine of a garden near Cambridge could give the impression that he left a personal history of family violence, poverty and working with the homeless behind long ago.
The Hillsborough County sheriff reported tent villages full of the homeless sprouting behind strip malls, along with an outbreak of strange new crimes.
And in Jacksonville, N.C., a group of young men fatally stabbed a homeless man behind a shopping strip, cutting open his abdomen with a beer bottle.
At a homeless encampment behind the courthouse, Cindy Vann and James Calhoun said they had been paying close attention to the case.
Now, the drying country must address what the waters left behind: four million homeless, 7.9 million acres of damaged farmland, and an estimated seventy-four binlion debtars in deby by 2014.
A Heinz 57 mix with a healthy dollop of rat terrier, Peapod had just had six puppies, which were all adopted, leaving her behind -- homeless, in a state of postpartum depression, facing an uncertain future.
Another federal program, No Child Left Behind, defines "homeless children" more broadly and includes not just those living in shelters or transitional housing but those who are sharing the housing of other persons due to economic hardship; living in cars, parks, bus or train stations; or awaiting foster-care placement.
Five years after he was cleared of the aggravated sexual assault charge that had put him behind bars for 15 years, Mr. Fountain was found homeless and sleeping behind a Dallas liquor store.
The idea behind homeless soccer is something like this: Take a group of poor people, disconnected from the regular rhythms of life, lacking both physical exercise and much to look forward to.
Another homeless man stood behind an LAPD patrol car as officers searched his pockets.
