Homeless children at record high in US

Thank you, Wall Street.

More children than ever before in America are going to sleep at night without a home to call their own.

Rising child poverty rates could be a 'taste' of what's ahead

One out of every 45 children – some 1.6 million – in the United States is homeless, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Center on Family Homelessness.

The majority of the children are under age 7.