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After this week's political rally at the Boy Scout Jamboree, let's give equal time to the Girl Scouts, thanks to

 the lovely interview Steve Inskeep did on NPR this morning.

Here. The sound of someone making a difference:

There are 28 girls in Troop 6000. They're all homeless. It's the first-ever Girl Scout troop for girls who are homeless, reporter Jacob Pinter reports.

The program has been such a success, New York is going to invest $1.1 million to expand it to include 500 homeless girls.

Is this a heartwarming story of someone pitching in to solve a problem, as Giselle   Burgess does. Or is it a sad commentary on America that there are 500 homeless girls in need of a  Girl Scout troop?

There are worse ways to start your day than with faint flicker of hope.

Inskeep's interview comes as the result of a story on the troop in the

 earlier this month. It noted that children make up 40 percent of the people in the city's homeless shelters.

“You’re really a testament to the compassion of New Yorkers, a testament to the potential of the young people who happen to be homeless on any given night. You have shown us all a way forward,”  Steven Banks, the commissioner of the city’s Department of Social Services, told the girls.

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There are 28 girls in Troop 6000. They're all homeless. It's the first-ever Girl Scout troop for girls who are homeless, reporter Jacob Pinter reports.


A NYC Scout Troop Provides Homeless Girls A Place Of Their Own

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A Girl Scout home for the homeless

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