Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device:Via Apple Podcasts | Via Spotify | Via StitcherPrince is 9 years old, ebullient and bright; he has spent much of the pandemic navigating the Google Classroom app from his mother’s phone. The uncertainty and isolation of the coronavirus lockdown is not new to him — he is one of New York City’s more than 100,000 homeless schoolchildren, the largest demographic within the homeless population. Families like Prince’s are largely invisible. Samantha M. Shapiro, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, has spent the last two years speaking with over a dozen homeless families with children of school age. On this week’s The Sunday Read, she explores what their lives are like.

Source: New York Times September 13, 2020 12:56 UTC