Nation Apr 01 America’s Safety Net “America’s Safety Net,” a series from the PBS NewsHour, is focused on the complex web of programs meant to help Americans in need. View the series here.
Nation Mar 18 Federal housing assistance shrinks as rental prices, homelessness reach historic highs Unlike other social safety net programs that continue to expand, federal housing assistance has shrunk to its lowest level in nearly 25 years, even as homelessness and rental prices have hit historic highs. Today, only one in four households that…
Nation Feb 08 Half of American renters pay more than 30% of income on housing, study shows Rental prices are unaffordable for a record number of Americans with half of all renters paying more than 30 percent of their income on rent and utilities, according to Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. Stephanie Sy reached out to…
Nation Jan 17 Why a growing number of American men say they are in a ‘friendship recession’ American men are stuck in what’s been dubbed a friendship recession, with 20 percent of single men now saying they don’t have any close friends. More than half of all men report feeling unsatisfied with the size of their friend…
Arts Dec 29 The images that defined the historic and often tumultuous year As 2023 comes to an end, we take a look back at some of the images that have defined this historic and often tumultuous year and hear from the photojournalists who captured them.
Nation Dec 27 How ‘lab-grown’ meat is made and will people accept it? The Department of Agriculture recently approved the production of what’s known as cultivated meat, which is chicken grown in a lab. That approval clears the way for companies to begin selling poultry produced from animal cells rather than animals bred…
Nation Dec 08 Racial disparity in addiction treatment access highlights inequities of opioid epidemic The CDC says synthetic opioids, particularly fentanyl, contributed to about 75,000 overdose deaths in the United States in 2022. It's a crisis that hits every demographic group, but there are large racial disparities between who is offered the most effective…
Nation Oct 26 ‘Never thought I’d grow up and get a bullet in my leg,’ says 10-year-old victim in Maine Lewiston, Maine, is the latest community to suffer devastating losses from mass shootings after a gunman killed at least 18 people and injured 13 others. The suspect remains at large and hundreds of officers are looking for him in a…
World Oct 20 Palestinian living in U.S. describes struggle to contact family in Gaza For many Palestinians living in the U.S., trying to reach loved ones in Gaza has become a constant and harrowing struggle. Dorgham Abusalim came to the United States in 2008 to pursue an academic scholarship and now works as a…
World Oct 13 WATCH: War in the Holy Land: A PBS News Special Report Co-anchored by PBS NewsHour’s Amna Nawaz from Israel and Geoff Bennett from the nation’s capital, the one hour primetime special covers the historic and devastating week of violence in Israel and Gaza.