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America's new homeless

Elizabeth Schulte reports on how a growing number of families are finding themselves hungry and homeless in cities across the country, according to a new report.

MAJOR CITIES across the country--including places largely known for their wealth and abundance--are becoming centers of hunger and homelessness.

Requests for emergency food assistance increased a staggering 26 percent last year in cities across the country, according to the recently released findings of the U.S. Conference of Mayors' Hunger and Homelessness Survey. This is the largest average increase in demand in the last 18 years.

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