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 Suggestion for expanding article 
Hello, I was just checking out the main page, and noticed there is no ""hobos now"", or ""hobos in North America today"" section.  Fact of the matter is, there is a huge explosion in tent cities and homeless in USA, and obviously the same dynamic as in the 1930s Great Depression, e.g. massive economic downturn, super hi layoffs equals more and more hobos and homeless.  Man, San Francisco is full of homeless vagrants, as is Portland, Oregon.  Fact of the matter is there is a HUGE homeless encampment by the PDX Portland Airport.  There are loads of folks living out of their cars nowadays, or in friend's cars.  The term hobo applies to these folks today facing such hard times, going city to city by train, hitchhike, etc.

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