The 2010 census

Homeless Americans will go under counted in the 2010 census. There is no easy way to quantify homelessness. It's not like you can even call most of those who are homeless on the phone or send them a letter. Other sorts of misery are more easily summed up, like divorce and death. Most homeless people probably hide it. You also can't just concentrate on one local population and use it as representative of the US as a whole. If all of America were just like some communities in America we would be redefined as a third world country.