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Billy Blanton embraces friend Marian Schamp in a tent city for the homeless October 6, 2008 in downtown Reno, Nevada. The City of Reno set up the tent city when existing shelters became overcrowded as Nevada struggles with one of the highest unemployment rates in the country.

Getty Images photographer Max Whittaker did a wonderful job of portraying the sadness and desperation of homeless people in Reno, Nevada.

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