I doubt many homeless people in the US live in absolute poverty as it's officially defined: > In 2008, "extreme poverty" widely refers to earning below the int

I doubt many homeless people in the US live in absolute poverty as it's officially defined: > In 2008, "extreme poverty" widely refers to earning below the international poverty line of $1.25/day (in 2005 prices), set by the World Bank. This measure is the equivalent to earning $1.00 a day in 1996 US prices, hence the widely used expression, living on "less than a dollar a day."[3] The vast majority of those in extreme poverty – 96% – reside in South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, The West Indies, East Asia and the Pacific; nearly half live in India and China alone. Surely most homeless scrounge together at least $1 per day? I bet just begging gets you more than that on average. Sure that $1 won't get you very far in the US, but it brings you out of absolute poverty and into relative poverty.