In The Atlantic: Rhode Island's Homelessness Trouble

Published Dec 01 2009, 01:42 PM by David Scharfenberg

Rhode Island's struggles with unemployment and homelessness continue to land in the national press. The latest account, on The Atlantic's web site, personalizes the issue with a look at a newly homeless young father:

Douglas Edward Coates is polite, soft spoken, and articulate. He looks like a typical 29-year-old professional in his black wool coat and wire-rimmed glasses, his sandy hair and goatee neatly cropped. If I'd met him under any other circumstances, I could not have guessed that he'd been living in a homeless shelter for three months.

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In The Atlantic: Rhode Island's Homelessness Trouble
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