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... afford it. Joseph Pinion, outreach chair for the New York Young Republicans and chairman of the Conservative Color Coalition, said the second leading cause of homelessness for families, in places like Colorado, is the inability to pay energy and utility bills. So with new technologies and advancing systems, wind energy ...
... case occurred at the end of November.) The outbreak may be bringing much-needed attention to such grim realities. “This is a warning shot that homelessness is something we can’t ignore,” said Dr. Jeffrey Norris, the medical director for a health center embedded within Father Joe’s Villages, a ...
... The poems for the grid span the city. Some are about home, memories of growing up in the affluent Blue Ridge neighborhood. Others are about homelessness, the cold concrete of a Seattle underpass. There are poems left in their native tongues, Spanish, Arabic. The writers run from well-established poets ...
nial homelessness count. California has long had a problem with homelessness. But what's catching officials by surprise is where exactly that population is booming. Counties along the state’s Western border -- rural, blue-collar communities where Californians have often sought refuge from the tech boom and the crippling cost ...
... but a big idea. ED FOWLER: It's really about home ownership and the American dream for people who stopped dreaming. We really were looking at not only eliminating homelessness, but with dealing with poverty for people. JEFFREY BROWN: For the PBS NewsHour, I’m Jeffrey Brown in Detroit, Michigan.
Sheri Crider wants to know why Americans want new and shiny things -- and what they do with the rest. It’s a question she has asked for years, going back to when she was using drugs and alcohol, experiencing homelessness and serving time, a period where she felt cut off ...
... a rough journey: Bates, who grew up in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, got into drugs as an adult and has faced bouts of homelessness. He has been married twice. He’s raised children. He’s lived in Virginia, in Connecticut, and now is back in his hometown. Bates ...
After another week and another series of Trump tweets that stole the media’s attention, these important stories may have gotten lost in your news feed.
The clustering of the "creative class" -- professionals in the arts, in the media, in tech -- has brought growth and innovation to cities, but has also led to "the new urban crisis," author Richard Florida tells the NewsHour's Paul Solman.
A New York City doctor mulls the reasons why some patients refuse to seek care -- and what needs to change.
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