Mickey Kaus takes on the Ebony reporter’s implausible assertion that “one in 50 American kids is homeless:”
1) The report apparently counts all people who are “homeless” even one night over the course of a year. That’s very different from saying that one-in-50 are homeless at the same time–e.g., “now.” 2) More significantly, the report counts as “homeless” families who’ve “doubled up”–e.g., moved in with relatives–apparently on the grounds that while these children in these families do have a home, they don’t have “a home of their own.”
