{"id":16771,"date":"2016-05-11T10:36:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T15:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16771"},"modified":"2016-05-11T10:39:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T15:39:52","slug":"16771","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16771","title":{"rendered":"20% increase in homelessness in Duluth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most sobering information discussed at yesterday&#8217;s Education Committee meeting was covered in today&#8217;s Trib. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/4029584-homeless-youth-rise-duluth-schools\">That story<\/a> begins:<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Duluth school district and its Head Start program are expected to serve 550 homeless youth by the end of the school year, a number that has increased by more than 20 percent since 2012.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A twenty percent increase!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t help but link this to some of the ugly national politics I&#8217;m seeing. This could be the local trauma underlying a nation with flat wages, a growing wealth divide, the lure of opioid drugs, a massive dependence upon incarceration to get problems out of sight and a loss of national confidence. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d raise taxes if I thought we could help these kids who now constitute 6-7% of our students. Ah, but remember <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16749\">what I told Marci<\/a>. First I would campaign for reelection on the tax raising platform and give voters the chance to shoot me down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most sobering information discussed at yesterday&#8217;s Education Committee meeting was covered in today&#8217;s Trib. That story begins: &#8220;The Duluth school district and its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16771"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16776,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16771\/revisions\/16776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}