![]() For those who might say those bums (and child bums?) should just “get a job,” Congresswoman Julia Carson (D-Indiana) estimates than more than half the homeless do have jobs. The statistics of homelessness nationwide are not exact, but there are an estimated 3 million homeless people – a third of them children – living on the streets of America. That alone may be hard to fathom in the richest country in the world, but there are more surprising facts about homelessness. The Pursuit of Happyness presents a timely topic, especially when more and more salary surveys remind us how many people are one paycheck from being homeless. The Pursuit of Happyness movie features Will Smith as a homeless man who finally lands a position at a Dean Witter investment firm, only to find that his new position is actually an unpaid internship. This is not the typical holiday fare, nor one of those fluffy date movies, but rather a sobering film about a man who loses his job and becomes homeless with his young son. One of the many holiday movies opening this winter is The Pursuit of Happyness.
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