Mar 15, 2009: Tent City

[xoxoxoBruce]

A tent city in Sacramento, Calif., shown here on Thursday, March 5, is growing as the worsening economy leads more
people to losing there jobs and being forced out of their homes. More than 1200 are estimated to live in the encampment,
which is growing by up to 50 people a week.

The tent city has sprouted up in almost the same location along the American River as an earlier one inhabited by
transplanted Tennesseans who had moved West looking for work during the Great Depression.

Although they say 1200 people, and this is just one camp, we're talking about out of over 300 million, but it's an interesting phenomenon.
In reality, there are probably more homeless on the streets that don't even have a tent.

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