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America Gone Wrong: A Slashed Safety Net Turns Libraries into Homeless Shelters
Chip Ward, TomDispatch.com. April 2, 2007.
A dirty little secret about America is that public libraries have become de facto daytime shelters for the nation's street people while librarians are increasingly our unofficial social workers for the homeless and mentally disturbed.