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Thursday on the NewsHour, British Prime Minister David Cameron calls for airstrikes in Syria, France and Russia agreed to fight Islamic State together, and we look into how pilgrims were America's original economic migrants. Plus, New Mexico offers a solution to chronic homelessness and how changing our meat consumption ...
... HARI SREENIVASAN: Homelessness remains a nationwide concern and it is especially prevalent in the nation`s capital. Last week, not far from the historic Watergate Hotel and near the affluent neighborhood of Georgetown, city officials dismantled a tent city that sprouted up this year under a freeway overpass. HARI ...
... where they can get all of their important mail. We also have a huge mental health facility, and we address all the major causes of homelessness and try to resolve them on this campus. MAN: I`m homeless, I`m hungry. KATHLEEN MCCLEERY: St. Martin sends an outreach team to ...
... on Wednesday, the president said the nation is boosting funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs and making progress on longstanding problems such as veteran homelessness and in reducing a backlog of disability claims. But other problems must still be addressed. "Still the unacceptable problems that we've seen, like ...
... in Chicago, Ulanday Barrett found community among poets and performance artists, both groups that welcomed them as a gender non-conforming, working-class youth experiencing homelessness. Poetry is particularly important in giving visibility and voice to people who are disabled and LGBTQ -- people who are too often silenced, or told ...
... who had taken unique paths to overcome challenges in order to graduate. Their Road to Graduation series profiles teens who overcame immigration problems, poverty and homelessness to reach their goal. This year, the PBS NewsHour American Graduate reporting team brought us stories of school success from across the U.S ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: Now a story of hope. The RedLine art gallery in Denver helps artists who have experienced homelessness and other hardships. Here, in their own words, the artists talk about how the Reach Studio program has changed their lives. GONZO, Artist: My name's Gonzo. I have been ...
... never happened before. MAYOR ERIC GARCETTI: It's never happened. But when I was campaigning for mayor I said, "I don't wanna just manage homelessness." We needed to take a discrete population to give people the confidence that if we can end veterans' homelessness , we can attack chronic homelessness ...
... thousands of people across the United States are living on the streets. Many advocates are pushing for a new model, permanent supportive housing, to reduce homelessness. The model prioritizes a stable place to live and has been shown to keep people from falling back into homelessness. Increasingly, people are also ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: As homelessness has grown in cities across the country, more so-called street papers have cropped up to help tell the story. We went back to look again at how one newspaper in the nation's capital is doing 10 years later. The NewsHour's Anne Davenport ...
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