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Since 2007, South Carolina's homeless student population has risen 45% to 8,750. And the last count was done all the way back in June.

And things certainly don't seem like they've gotten better since then.

Hop over to The State to read the Associated Press report on the situation.

Though, I should note that the metric used to calculate a homeless student is pretty broad and doesn't require that a student be sleeping on the streets.