"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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That's not all it said. What it ALSO said was that 1.5% are homeless
on ANY GIVEN NIGHT. That means,on the average, the "temporarily"
homeless are homeless an average of 4 months per year. They're
probably in-and-out on a regular basis. They have, as I said, no
regular place to live....

Ed Huntress

How do you count the people living in a sympathetic friend or relative's
basement or spare bedroom?

I've taken someone in and know of quite a few other cases.

Some of these huge Children Who Go To Bed Hungry statistics make sense only
if they count dieting teenagers, which is literally true but very deceitful.
You can still buy pork and chicken to feed them for well under $2 a pound. I
picked up some pork slices at $1.89 a pound yesterday as a talking point to
ask the butcher how to precook it for stew. He tried to direct me to a
cheaper whole roast instead.

Watch the buying habits of people in line ahead of you who pay with food
stamps, assuming you aren't in an "upscale" store that discourages them.

jsw