The soldier — a husband and father who had been deployed multiple times — recently came back from his latest tour in Afghanistan to find that his wife had lost her job. To make matters worse, he was having trouble finding full-time work.

With mounting financial woes, the family faced a life on the streets.

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Tanya McDowell, the homeless mother arrested for allegedly sending her son to a Norwalk school while not living in the city during the last half of the 2010 school year, went to court for the second time Wednesday, but she did not have to go before a judge.

McDowell's attorney, Darnell Crosland, said he decided to waive her appearance after talking over the felony case with the Norwalk courthouse's lead prosecutor. McDowell is charged with first-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit first-degree larceny.

Before she was to appear in court, Connecticut Parent's Union founder Gwen Samuel held a press conference to reveal she was presenting Supervisory Assistant State's Attorney Suzanne Vieux an online petition calling for the dismissal of McDowell's charges. Click here for the complete article.

Economists tell us the Great Recession is over. Try telling that to someone still looking for work and even a place to live. Thanks to the recession, the face of homelessness is changing.

The number of families with no place to live is on the rise across the region, meaning more and more children are homeless, through no fault of their own.

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Dozens of homeless people will soon take the stand in a Sacramento, Calif. courtroom to share their experiences of having their personal possessions seized by local authorities.

The rare case highlights the often untold struggles of homeless Americans attempting to create makeshift homes for themselves in a climate where law enforcement policies target them and their rights are ambiguous.

The civil class action lawsuit brought before federal court represents all homeless people in Sacramento whose possessions were taken in police sweeps since 2005, The Sacramento Bee reports. The period of time includes the highly publicized closure of the "Tent City" homeless encampment.

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