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‘I have the best job in the world’; Doctor offers mobile medicine to homeless kids
A little girl laughs in an exam room and then, feeling the prick of a needle, buries her face in her mother's shoulder and cries as she's vaccinated against the H1N1 flu strain. She and 14 other children might not have been unanimously enthusiastic about the flu clinic Dr. Randy Christensen offered recently at the UMOM New Day Shelter. But Darlene Newsom, the shelter's CEO, said the care Christ[...]
Arizona has some 25,000 homeless schoolchildren
The number of homeless schoolchildren in Arizona has surpassed 25,000, an increase of nearly 18 percent in the past year. Education officials say the rise is driven by the soaring rate of unemployment and foreclosures.
