Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for January 23, 2020
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January 23, 2020: There are more homeless people living in New York City than any other American city—78,604. Los Angeles is second with 56,257. Seattle places third with 11,199.[1]
Nationwide, 567,715 are considered homeless. That 2019 figure is up 3% from the year before. “The national increase is primarily due to a leap in homelessness in California where it grew 16.4 percent between 2018 and 2019.”[1]
Nationwide, 63% of the homeless live in some form of sheltered accommodation. However, once again, things are much different in California. In the Golden State, 71.7% are unsheltered. The state has more than nine times as many unsheltered homeless people as any other state.[1]
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- January 22, 2020 –3 tech companies valued at over a trillion dollars
- January 21, 2020 –334 more Americans died from alcohol than drug overdose
- January 20, 2020 –18 minutes for Martin Luther King Jr. to deliver “I Have a Dream Speech”
- January 17, 2020 –19 counties in 5 states may face legal action over inaccurate voter registration
- January 16, 2020 –1 day until first voters go to the polls in Democratic presidential primary
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