• PBS NewsHour full episode July 19, 2018

    PBS NewsHour full episode July 19, 2018

    Jul 19, 2018 11:48 PM EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle leaders on Tuesday repealed a tax on large companies such as Amazon and Starbucks after a backlash from businesses, a stark reversal from a month ago when the City Council unanimously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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • These 3D-printed homes could provide shelter to the world's most vulnerable people

    These 3D-printed homes could provide shelter to the world's most vulnerable people

    Mar 30, 2018 06:12 PM EDT

    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 ...

  • News Wrap: Florida sends new gun control bill to governor

    News Wrap: Florida sends new gun control bill to governor

    Mar 08, 2018 11:50 PM EDT

    ... 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.

  • How a cartoonist is highlighting the lives of San Diego’s homeless residents

    How a cartoonist is highlighting the lives of San Diego’s homeless residents

    Mar 08, 2018 11:30 PM EDT

    ... Hari Sreenivasan: A Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist is using his drawings to highlight the growing problem of homelessness in Southern California. Jeffrey Brown traveled to San Diego to get a first-hand look at the leading newspaper's cartoon series, "Street Art." Jeffrey Brown: For a newspaper cartoonist ...

  • Opinion: 1.3 million students are homeless. Here’s how we can help them

    Opinion: 1.3 million students are homeless. Here’s how we can help them

    Mar 06, 2018 03:24 PM EDT

    Our homeless students hold as much promise, and are as much a part of this country’s future, as every other student. And while that’s easy to say, the reality is we haven’t taken the steps to ensure homeless students get the support they need to succeed in school.