• 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 ...

  • Has policing in America gone too far?

    Has policing in America gone too far?

    May 26, 2018 08:01 PM EST

    ... social problems as things to be dealt with by police. We're not concerned about slave uprisings anymore. We're concerned about things like mass homelessness, black markets, around drugs and sex work. The management of untreated mental illness, violence and behavioral problems in schools. And so as the social ...

  • Giving vulnerable residents help before mental health issues land them in jail

    Giving vulnerable residents help before mental health issues land them in jail

    Apr 09, 2018 10:30 PM EST

    ... docket, they have just a complex array of problems. It's not just behavioral health, not just mental health and substance abuse issues, but also homelessness, a history of trauma, no family or social supports whatsoever, no job skills, no social skills. They will cuss at me in court. John ...