The U.S. Department of Education counts the number of school children without a fixed address, which comes to 1.1 million. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), on the other hand, counts the number of families living on the street, in shelters or in cars at a specific point in time, about 138,149 homeless children.
ANALYSIS The author states that the Department of education thinks there are 1.1 million homeless kids and HUD says that 138,149 homeless children. This is implying that they have different definitions of homeless because they have VERY different ideas of what homeless means. we clearly do not understand how much poverty affects children or even have a definate definition.