This cartoon was drawn for the FXBG Advance.
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Creative note: I wrote this cartoon last Friday at a friend’s house in Arlington along with last week’s cartoon. My editor at the Advance liked both and we decided to hold this cartoon for a week until today. This was before the winter storm. I tweaked the idea to reflect the storm.
Music note: I listened to Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.
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I don't think there's a solid definition of "homeless" because of a fact you'll find if you check for lists of homeless by state.
Mississippi claims the lowest level of homelessness, at 3.3 per ten thousand. Vermont and New York claim the highest at more than 50 per ten thousand.
That makes no sense to me, unless the definitions are variant. I'd bet that shacks listed as condemned and residents "homeless" in Vermont are listed as "housed" in Mississippi.
I don't know that, but call it a strong suspicion, because I've traveled in Mississippi.
Homelessness may go through the roof here in So Cal with the fires. I live 140+ miles away, and I'm already hearing that people are coming here to stay with friends/family, or just to get away from the smoke. The news is on now, and the fires are starting to shift to the east where even more people are living.