This is booktv on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Good evening. Welcome to politics and prose at busboys and poets in brooklyn. Thank you all for coming out this evening. Politics prose is very pleased to join busboys and poets in bringing authors and events to brooklyn. Now, if you would, please silence your mobile phones. After the event well have question and answers. Books can be purchased at our register on the way out the door. You can have them signed by this at this table right here at the door heading out of this space, and ill give it over to my friend andy. Thank you so much, and welcome, everybody. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening. How many are here for the first time . Oh, its always exciting you have not been here for the first time. And this one, okay. [laughter] how many are lying . I want to thank you all, and i want to also say a very special thank you to politics prose and the partnership that we have with them. Were very thrilled to be part o
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Its a situation that Many Americans find shameful. Some experts say the real number of Homeless Veterans is about twice that figure, 100,000. Whatever the number, the experts agree its about 11 of all homeless adults, but here is the good news. The fish estimate of Homeless Veterans is down by a third from 2010. Tonight i am going to look at how america is trying to eliminate homelessness among veterans entirely and the obstacles it faces. The Obama Administration have helped. The efforts have jumped from about 2. 4 billion dollars in 2008 to 7 billion dollars in the fiscal year. Here is how Michelle Obama explained why it makes economic sense in cities to ends this. Recent studies have shown that one chronically homeless person can cost communities between 30 to 50,000 per year. In emergency room visits, medical bills, law enforcement. For some individuals it can be even higher. The cost to give someone a home of their own is only about 20,000 the first lady was helping promote the pr
Nearly 50,000 men and women who served their country are living without a roof over their heads. Its a situation that Many Americans find shameful. Some experts say the real number of Homeless Veterans is about twice that figure, 100,000. Whatever the number, the experts agree its about 11 of all homeless adults, but here is the good news. The fish estimate of Homeless Veterans is down by a third from 2010. Tonight i am going to look at how america is trying to eliminate homelessness among veterans entirely and the obstacles it faces. The Obama Administration have helped. The efforts have jumped from about 2. 4 billion dollars in 2008 to 7 billion dollars in the fiscal year. Here is how Michelle Obama explained why it makes economic sense in cities to ends this. Recent studies have shown that one chronically homeless person can cost communities between 30 to 50,000 per year. In emergency room visits, medical bills, law enforcement. For some individuals it can be even higher. The cost t
Nearly 50,000 men and women who served their country are living without a roof over their heads. Its a situation that Many Americans find shameful. Some experts say the real number of Homeless Veterans is about twice that figure, 100,000. Whatever the number, the experts agree its about 11 of all homeless adults, but here is the good news. The fish estimate of Homeless Veterans is down by a third from 2010. Tonight i am going to look at how america is trying to eliminate homelessness among veterans entirely and the obstacles it faces. The Obama Administration have helped. The efforts have jumped from about 2. 4 billion dollars in 2008 to 7 billion dollars in the fiscal year. Here is how Michelle Obama explained why it makes economic sense in cities to ends this. Recent studies have shown that one chronically homeless person can cost communities between 30 to 50,000 per year. In emergency room visits, medical bills, law enforcement. For some individuals it can be even higher. The cost t