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I recently sent the following letter to Time.

To the Editor,

Your recent article on homeless children (“Report Says 1 in 50 U.S. Kids Are Homeless,” March 10, 2009) was agenda journalism at its worst. It unquestionably passed off deliberately misleading information without any critical analysis.  Your article made only a single, passing reference to the unusual and fraudulent definition of homeless used by The National Center on Family Homelessness.

When people think of being homeless, they think of having no where to live.  They do not normally think of living in a trailer park or sharing a home with extended family as being “homeless.”  But the claim is even more deceptive than that, as it treats someone who does these things only one time out of the entire year as “homeless” for that year.

I am currently living with extended family while I transition my career.  No one in their right mind would consider me homeless, but The National Center on Family Homelessness does.  When agenda organizations send out press releases, the press needs to do more than just regurgitate their fraudulent claims.

Sincerely,

Brian Garst

letter to the editor