Schumer, Menendez: Nearly 10,000 Nyc Metro Area Vets Now Homeless — Current Veterans Health And Homeless Programs Starved Of Funding And Cannot Handle New Wave Of Returning Soldiers From Afghanistan And Iraq

Washington, DC - November 11, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) — U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Robert Menendez today said that current federal veteran’s health and homeless prevention programs are starved for funding and cannot handle the massive wave of traumatized veterans forced to live on the streets.

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