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Host, David R. Jones, President of the Community Service Society of New York, discusses NYC's homeless and youth-at-risk with Dr. Ralph da Costa Nunez, CEO and President of Homes for the Homeless, President of the Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness, faculty member at Columbia University and Community Service Society Trustee. Dr. Nunez describes why a large percentage of NYC's homeless population is made up of children. He talks about the services Homes for the Homeless offers, include day care centers and an alternative high school that focuses on job training.