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According to the U.S. Department of Education, at least 2,000 children live in the hotels of Central Florida, and that's not counting the untold numbers who are too young to go to school, or who have dropped out, or who have otherwise escaped notice, as many undoubtedly have. |
| People who advocate for hotel families speak of them as the new face of poverty in America. They say that the hotel is to the modern American family what the city shelter was to the homeless adult of the 1980s and the migrant camp was to the refugees of the Oklahoma dust storms. Every state in the country has hotels with families in them, but it's hard to think of a place more emblematic of the disillusionment at the heart of the American economy than the row of $149-per-week accommodations pointing the way to the fairytale opulence of Cinderella's Castle. Like many of those on Highway 192, Melissa's dad first came to the area to get away from another life somewhere else. Cesar* grew up on Long Island, where he was a prominent member of a violent Puerto Rican street gang. In 1996, a friend told him that the men from the narcotics squad were looking for him, so he headed down to the land of perfect weather and plentiful paychecks. After a backslide into the drug trade he found work at a fancy tourist restaurant called the Wine Cellar. Read the rest of the story at HuffPost. o-_-o |
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| Last Updated: 04-19-2012 | |
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