• In LA, poverty on Skid Row defies U.S.’s humane reputation

    In LA, poverty on Skid Row defies U.S.’s humane reputation

    Oct 28, 2018 10:29 PM EST

    ... increase directed at funding the creation of homes for the chronically homeless. And while tents still line the streets of Skid Row, this year chronic homelessness has dropped 18 percent in LA County.WILLY VAN SEALS: When it rains, you must have something on this floor. SIMON OSTROVSKY: But for ...

  • Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder, dies at 65

    Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder, dies at 65

    Oct 15, 2018 10:35 PM EST

    ... the operating system. The decision thrust Microsoft onto the throne of technology and the two Seattle-natives became billionaires. Both later dedicated themselves to philanthropy.Over the course several decades, Allen gave more than $2 billion to a wide range of interests, including ocean health, homelessness and advancing scientific research.

  • 5 important stories that aren’t about the midterms

    5 important stories that aren’t about the midterms

    Oct 15, 2018 09:43 PM EST

    ... jail time or up to six months in a work program, the Associated Press reported. The latest measure builds on legislation from 2013 that made homelessness punishable by fines, BBC noted. [BBC] Why it matters: The United Nations strongly condemned the measure earlier this summer when it was first introduced ...

  • Los Angeles mayor Garcetti: Trump sows division, does 'racist things'

    Los Angeles mayor Garcetti: Trump sows division, does 'racist things'

    Aug 17, 2018 02:06 PM EST

    ... word as alleged by fired White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman. In the wide-ranging interview, the mayor touched on issues from the city's homelessness crisis to immigration. He did not join some other Democrats in calling for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement but said its mission ...

  • A festering opioid crisis, worn-out families and 'so much pain to process'

    A festering opioid crisis, worn-out families and 'so much pain to process'

    Aug 14, 2018 10:30 PM EST

    ... was very delicate, very sensitive. She was very quiet, but yet very kind, very gentle. Jeffrey Brown: In 2012, Tess first became addicted to opioids, after a prescription for bronchitis-related pain. Over the next six years, her life would spin out of control, to heroin addiction, homelessness and prostitution.

  • Police arrest suspect in Oakland train station stabbing

    Police arrest suspect in Oakland train station stabbing

    Jul 24, 2018 05:06 PM EST

    ... and some firecrackers were thrown but police broke it up and the two men were later released. Cowell has a reported history of drug use, homelessness and violence. He was released from state prison on May 6 after completing a two-year sentence for second-degree robbery, said Vicky Waters ...

  • PBS NewsHour full episode July 19, 2018

    PBS NewsHour full episode July 19, 2018

    Jul 19, 2018 11:48 PM EST

    ... meeting with Vladimir Putin raise more questions than answers. Also: Israel's controversial law declaring it the homeland of the Jewish people, the plan to reunite the remaining separated migrant families, the Special Olympics celebrates 50 years, the supply and demand for kidneys and Brief but Spectacular take on homelessness.

  • Stockton’s young mayor giving city’s youth more opportunities

    Stockton’s young mayor giving city’s youth more opportunities

    Jun 30, 2018 08:54 PM EST

    ... not come easily for Michael Tubbs. He grew up in poverty on the south side of Stockton, California, a city struggling with violent crime and homelessness. When he was a kid. His father was mostly in prison. His single mother struggled, working as a cashier and later doing customer service ...

  • Seattle repeals homeless-aid tax after Amazon objects

    Seattle repeals homeless-aid tax after Amazon objects

    Jun 12, 2018 09:07 PM EST

    SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle leaders on Tuesday repealed a tax on large companies such as Amazon and Starbucks after a backlash from businesses, a stark reversal from a month ago when the City Council unanimously approved the effort to combat a growing homelessness crisis. The council voted 7-2 after supporters ...

  • Opinion: We can’t let progress on high school graduation rates mask a deeper problem

    Opinion: We can’t let progress on high school graduation rates mask a deeper problem

    Jun 05, 2018 09:42 PM EST

    ... In some states, gaps between these subgroups and their peers are 25 percentage points and higher. We also are learning more about students who experience homelessness, whose graduation rates across the eight states that measure them are the lowest in the nation. All these gaps call into the question the ...