• Questions for President Obama: A Town Hall Special

    Questions for President Obama: A Town Hall Special

    Jun 02, 2016 01:39 AM EST

    ... if somebody's put on a uniform of this country and fought for our freedom, they cannot be homeless, and our goal should be zero homelessness, zero tolerance for homelessness.  And we have cut veterans homelessness since I've been in office by about a third.  Tens of thousands of ...

  • Why activists are fighting over feral felines

    Why activists are fighting over feral felines

    Jan 22, 2016 11:07 PM EST

    ... it's one that I put to PetSmart Charities. And the response that I got is that the founders of the company want to end homelessness -- cat homelessness. They want to end the euthanasia of cats in shelters. And they believe that this is the best approach. When you look ...

  • VA chief to Congress: You can't fire your way to excellence

    VA chief to Congress: You can't fire your way to excellence

    Jan 21, 2016 10:54 PM EST

    ... to health care, making it easier for veterans to navigate the complicated VA website, reducing chronic backlogs in disability claims and continuing to reduce veteran homelessness. McDonald praised passage of a 2014 law intended to make it easier for veterans to receive private care, noting that VA authorized 12 million ...

  • This Seattle choir aims to help members recover from trauma

    This Seattle choir aims to help members recover from trauma

    Jan 12, 2016 09:13 PM EST

    ... Art Singers is a choir group supported by the organization Path with Art, a Seattle-based nonprofit with a mission to connect people recovering from homelessness, addiction and other trauma to arts programming. It is an effort to harness creative engagement as a means towards community and stability. For Andrea ...

  • People in recovery find the recipe for a fresh start in cooking career training

    People in recovery find the recipe for a fresh start in cooking career training

    Dec 19, 2015 01:33 AM EST

    ... mission. MIKE CURTIN: And while we're doing that, we're training men and women who are coming out of incarceration, battling addiction, surviving abuse, homelessness and unemployment for jobs in this hospitality business. We're trying to bring these two things together in a way that's going to ...

  • Humans of New York gives U.S.-bound refugees a voice

    Humans of New York gives U.S.-bound refugees a voice

    Dec 17, 2015 01:20 AM EST

    ... speaking for themselves and telling their own stories. These are smart, educated people who through no fault of their own are just languishing in near homelessness in countries that, honestly, a lot of people don't want them there. They're facing discrimination. Aya has been hit by a car ...

  • Debate over how to treat the homeless simmers in Sarasota, as more cities crack down

    Debate over how to treat the homeless simmers in Sarasota, as more cities crack down

    Dec 13, 2015 09:45 PM EST

    ... prohibits sleeping or camping outside on public or private property without permission. Across the country, advocates say a growing number of cities have been criminalizing homelessness. According to a survey by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, the number of cities with city-wide bans on camping or ...

  • Why stress may be fueling the childhood asthma epidemic

    Why stress may be fueling the childhood asthma epidemic

    Dec 09, 2015 05:01 AM EST

    In a study done exclusively for The Detroit News and PBS NewsHour, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found about 2 of every 3 children in Detroit face “adverse childhood experiences,” such as household substance abuse, exposure to violence and extreme economic hardship that can trigger asthma.

  • PBS NewsHour full episode Nov. 26, 2015

    PBS NewsHour full episode Nov. 26, 2015

    Nov 27, 2015 12:51 AM EST

    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 in the U.S. could stave off...

  • Residents react as their tent city is dismantled; ‘I just want to survive’

    Residents react as their tent city is dismantled; ‘I just want to survive’

    Nov 26, 2015 11:48 PM EST

    Homelessness is a nationwide concern, but is especially prevalent in Washington D.C. Last week, near the affluent neighborhood of Georgetown, city officials dismantled a tent city that had sprouted up under a freeway underpass. NewsHour looks at some of those homeless individuals’ reactions.