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Robert has a badly injured leg as a result of a war wound in Viet Na. It has kept him from full employment. He sometimes stands at the exit of a shopping mall with his sign when funds get low.

The homeless and poor often have nowhere to turn for help, except to each other. This man, who had been beaten, was comforted by a homeless woman. San Francisco, California.

All over the country, it was hard to tell any longer who was newly homelss or who had always been there. John, who had been in a work program for one year, had a sever slcohol problem, he was in a stupor and fell on his way to the shelter.…

Winston is a homeless man who lives ona steam grate in downtown Philadelphi. Homeless people are so common in the city that a lot of folks can walk by witout even noticing. This is in contrast to the days when the sight of people sleeping in the…

Six-year-old Jeremy (top) and his brothers sit ona car seat that they play on along the river. Theiri father lost his job at a lumber mill in Oregon. They came to Clifornia in hopes of finding work but have had little luck. Sacramento, California.

At the end of the 80's decade, I saw more and more children in worse and worse situations. On the banksk of the Sacramento river, where there had only been old grizzled hobos, I found six-year-old Jeremy, who ived out of a car with his family.…

Pennsylvania Dutch was too old and ill to get ired by any employer but was too young for social security. Sacramento, California 1984.

Immigrants flooded to America in the midst of a growign homeless crisis. These Mexican nationals had come seeking work but did not find the American dream. Los Angeles, California 1987.

In the skid row section of South Central Los Angeles, men are scattered like wreckage on the streets. Los Angeles, California 1987.

Rana Willimas, age 3, eats first while adults wait (in background) in line. She and her homeless parents came to the state capitol in Sacramento to protest the lack of affordable housing in the state. The frere food was offered by a local homeless…