Opinion Journal debunks AP homeless children story

Exaggerating the number of homeless in America is a past time for not only advocacy groups, but also the mainstream media.

You may have caught this headline yesterday while surfing the internet:

1 in 50 American children experiences homelessness

But as the Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal discovered, quite a few of those kids aren't really homeless, unless you greatly stretch the definition of homeless.

The AP "reporters" should be ashamed of themselves.

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