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New York, New York. If you can't make it there - they'll send you anywhere.

In fact, since 2007, the Bloomberg administration has been providing tickets out of town for homeless families, paying for them to return to loved ones in other cities, states, and even countries.

It's called Project Reconnect.

The city pays upwards of $36,000 a year to shelter a family here in New York. In contrast, the tickets home average $218 per person.

Critics say that while it saves a few bucks, it passes a few more and gets rid of the problem rather than solving it.

A spokesperson for the city told CBS News Wednesday that before anyone is sent back home, they make sure there is a home to go tom and require a certified letter that proves someone is waiting on the other end.

A total of 564 families have participated - and none have returned to New York shelters.

For them, let's hope it's a chance to make a brand new start of it.

That's a page from my notebook.

Katie's off today. This is Randall Pinkston.

Every year, more than one million American children experience homelessness, according to a recent study. That's one in 50. Perhaps a parent got laid off and there was no money for rent, or maybe the family home was lost to a bank foreclosure. Whatever the reason, it's a story that keeps repeating in cities all around the country.

These children aren't all living in cardboard boxes or sleeping under a bridge. Many are in temporary shelters or motel rooms, often in cramped and uncomfortable situations that are a long way from a real home. Those who are able to stay in school may show side effects like low self-esteem and lower grades. The emotional scars they are developing could be there for many years to come.

With two million additional home foreclosures expected in the coming months, we could see more kids with no space to call their own, children who are forced to bear the burden of adult problems, though they share none of the blame.

They share none of the blame for America's economic crisis, yet they shoulder all of the consequences.

That is too much of a burden for any child to bear.

Since the recession began, more than one million children have lost health insurance as their parents lose their jobs.

One in 50 American children is homeless, and as more homes go into foreclosure that number will rise.

Beginning next week, CBS News will show you the suffering the recession is causing children, and the solutions some people have found, like a program that provides temporary placement for kids whose parents just can't make ends meet, and a high school where teachers are spending their own money to pay for their students' test fees, prom dresses, in some cases, even food.

Our economy impacts banks and bottom lines, but at CBS News we're making a network-wide commitment to shine a spotlight on people we cannot afford to ignore: the Children of the Recession.

That's a page from my notebook.