you and i know how vulnerable that group in particular is to being bullied, to feeling ostracized, to thinking of harming themselves, to being homeless. so what we need to do is make them not feel like others, we need to make them feel part of the family. and let us remember that right now the support for gay marriage across the nation is 70%. it has changed dramatically. and there are so many gay families in florida that need to be part of the conversation. you can t erase people. you need to make people feel seen. so i wonder, what is a school going to do when there s a school play and johnny s parents are two men or two women or maybe one gay woman or one gay man? how do they answer those questions? because now if they do they are liable. they are liable to getting sued. so it s hurtful. it s dangerous. plus remember, this is the state
growing crisis of child poverty. a recent study from columbia university found nearly 4 million children in the u.s. fell back into poverty this past january in one month when the expanded child tax credits ended. the har hardest hit black and lo children. jericka duncan tells us about a program helping low income mothers on eye on america. reporter: when 35-year-old maureen gardner was pregnant, she was on the brink of being homeless. it s really hard to think about. i don t know. i would have to maybe be in a shelter, you know, and find other ways to get assistance for myself and my baby. reporter: for years she worked as a director of a nonprofit after-school program but right before the pandemic hit she left. she went through her savings and soon found herself expecting a child with no job. i m pregnant. it s a pandemic. i m, like, this is crazy. reporter: a social worker told her about a new program where smoked get 500 to $1,000 a
to new york city and shot at two more people living on the street, just within a 90 minute period over this past weekend on march 12th. i want you to listen to the mayor describe those shootings. it s incredibly chilling effect. i believe that he s alive today because he woke up after he heard the first gunshot and started yelling. the second person did not and he stood over him and shot him in his head. for no reason at all, but being homeless. so we will catch him. right there, the victims, one survived and one was killed. authorities looking to see if there are any other victims they need to worry about going, i m told they re getting this to get wellness checks on people convinced they go into the shelters for their own safety but there is surveillance video they re using and they re sharing between the departments. there are pictures hoping they ll identify this suspect
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homeless people to be vigilant. broke my heart. i mean shot him in his head. for no reason at all. for being homeless. the attacker most recently caught on camera in manhattan, walking up to a sleeping man saturday and firing. execution style. earlier that morning, police say the suspect shot another person less than a mile away. investigators believe he could be the same gunman wanted in three other incidents in washington, d.c., earlier this month. so far, shooting five homeless people, killing two. they re going through their own struggles and it s unfortunate, that they re in the situation that they are. these acts playing out amid a homelessness crisis that housing officials say was worsens by the pandemic. several weeks ago new york leaders began enforcing a zero tolerance people for people sleeping on the subway cutting back on crime in the robust transit system, up more than 70% from this time last year. but critics say there aren t