Atlantic City Looks To Bus More Homeless Back Home

In an April 27, 2011 photo, worker Francisco Ortiz talks about his own experiences as he stands outside Sister Jean’s Soup Kitchen, in Atlantic City, N.J. , where hundreds of homeless and indigent people line up each day at lunch time. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) – Larry Bogan knows precisely how much it costs for a bus ticket from Atlantic City back home to Pompano Beach, Fla.: $126. Unfortunately, that’s $126 more than he has at present.

And so instead of cooking in a restaurant or driving a tractor trailer for someone like he used to do, Bogan eats at a soup kitchen and sleeps on park benches or in a train or bus station each night. He’s one of about 500 homeless people living in the nation’s second-largest gambling market.

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