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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
More than 1 billion people live in slums without adequate housing. A San Francisco-based nonprofit has set out to tackle global homelessness in a new way: by 3-D printing homes. The first of these homes was on display at South by Southwest this month in a backyard in ...
... more broadly than the truth. Twitter funded the study. Still to come on the "NewsHour": the Trump economic adviser behind the steel and aluminum tariffs; from the "NewsHour" Bookshelf, America's secret wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan; a Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist sketches the faces of homelessness; and much more.
... So what do you hope people get from the series that you did? Steve Breen: I hope that people try to resist the thinking that homelessness is caused by laziness or some flaw in character. But that's really not what drives homelessness. It's mental illness. It's alcoholism ...
... students in Tukwila, Deer Park and Virginia, we can do it everywhere in the country. In every school district in America there are students experiencing homelessness, and they deserve an opportunity to succeed. That’s why America’s Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises, the Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness and ...
... out a lot. IVETTE FELICIANO: In late December, the Rivera’s were among more than 40 families at the hotel that faced potential eviction and homelessness. FEMA’s transitional housing program was set to end by mid-January. But then FEMA extended the program through March 20th at the request ...
Advocates like Alan Witchey say, now that Indiana is adding a work requirement, bureaucratic mistakes become much more common, especially for vulnerable populations like the homeless. Alan Witchey: Even though we have been told there's an exemption for homelessness, we haven't heard, how is that going to work ...
... you found that was most interesting? ALASTAIR GEE: Well we went into this knowing that cities say that these programs are a way of resolving homelessness and their official reports actually say that these bus programs are an 'exit from homelessness' and so we wanted to find out if that ...
Tens of thousands of homeless in Southern California are struggling to escape smoke as wildfires tear through the region.
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