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... 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 ...
... 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.
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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.
... 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 ...
... 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.
... 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 (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 ...
... 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 ...
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