• 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    ... m dying,” said Malik Cole, a 9-year-old Detroit boy, about his breathing difficulties. His family was homeless for about a year. READ MORE: Homelessness, asthma force family to give up children Elizabeth Secord, division chief for allergy, asthma and immunology at DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, said ...

  • PBS NewsHour full episode Nov. 26, 2015

    PBS NewsHour full episode Nov. 26, 2015

    Nov 27, 2015 12:51 AM EDT

    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 ...

  • 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 EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • Albuquerque mayor: Here’s a crazy idea, let’s give homeless people jobs

    Albuquerque mayor: Here’s a crazy idea, let’s give homeless people jobs

    Nov 26, 2015 11:23 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • Obama visits Arlington National Cemetery to honor veterans

    Obama visits Arlington National Cemetery to honor veterans

    Nov 11, 2015 02:00 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • What racial, disability and LGBTQ justice have in common

    What racial, disability and LGBTQ justice have in common

    Oct 12, 2015 07:26 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • American Graduate Day 2015 celebrates efforts to build student success

    American Graduate Day 2015 celebrates efforts to build student success

    Oct 03, 2015 01:59 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • Artists who have lived on the street get space to create

    Artists who have lived on the street get space to create

    Jun 29, 2015 11:16 PM EDT

    In Denver, the RedLine gallery reaches out to people who have experienced homelessness to offer them an accessible artistic outlet. In their own words, some of the Reach Studio artists talk about how the program has transformed their lives.