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... student learning and teachers' work. They contend support staff is vital to properly address everyday student issues such as physical and mental health problems or homelessness. In Chicago, the nation's third-largest school district, the teachers who have been out on strike since last Thursday are seeking commitments for ...
... and they all have their shared sink with shared bathrooms. Hari Sreenivasan: Sandra Guillory is the Philadelphia director of Depaul USA, a nonprofit focused on homelessness. They plan to rehab this convent to house 24 students from colleges across Philadelphia. Students will be asked to pay $150 a month. Sandra ...
... get scared the way that our family did." But he added that many people are dealing "with a lot more pain than I am" including homelessness, working multiple jobs but not making enough money to pay the bills or forgoing college because of fears about being overwhelmed by debt. READ ...
... like the Los Angeles region and the San Francisco Bay Area as states within a state, honing in on local concerns. On a recent swing, he discussed immigration in San Diego, homelessness in Los Angeles and housing in San Francisco, where a typical one-bedroom apartment rents for $3,500.
... from state mental institutions or maybe would have been hospitalized in them, no longer were. And there were inadequate community based services. What resulted was homelessness, mental patients in nursing homes, and increasingly in jails.” President Jimmy Carter tried to restructure the community mental health care system with the Mental ...
... to resign. Plus: A wave of anti-LGBTQ sentiment in Poland turns into violence, new attention on the 2018 resignation of Sen. Al Franken, Politics Monday with Tamara Keith and Amy Walter, conservative columnist George Will's new book, Harlem in pictures and how Detroit is addressing jobs and homelessness.
Communities across the country are struggling to create jobs and reduce homelessness. In Detroit, a nonprofit called Empowerment Plan has found a way to address both problems. The organization helps people in need with a unique, multipurpose garment, employment and a path toward continuing education. Special correspondent Mary Ellen Geist ...
... people are nearly 10 times as likely to be homeless as the average American. Weld Seattle, a nonprofit based in Washington state, aims to reduce homelessness by using vacant buildings as temporary housing until development officially begins. Since 2016, the group, founded by Amy and Brady King, has been reaching ...
... the street. Today, we're looking, tragically, at about 40,000. But cities that you know very well, Atlanta, Houston, New Orleans, have eliminated veterans homelessness by getting in partnership not only with the VA, but with charities and non-governmental organizations. Most of our homelessness is concentrated in one ...
... son's security. First and foremost, you must reassure your child that they are safe. That reassurance is getting harder to give in Oregon, where homelessness is on the rise and the Department of Education reported a record number of homeless students.I understand the impulse to reassure our kids ...
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