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... the Homeless Children and Youth Act is expected to be reintroduced in Congress after the midterm elections that aims to amend HUD's definition of homelessness and provide children with more supportive housing, food, and mental services. Rashema Melson, for her part, is hoping to improve college access for other ...
... services, sometimes, we don't know about it if they're not willing to share that information. DAVID NAZAR: In addition to the stigma of homelessness, many students fear the intake process because of their immigration status. The district is nearly 80 percent Hispanic, and the school system says it ...
... care.” On Friday Shinseki delivered remarks to the National Coalition of Homeless Veterans annual conference, where he updated the agency’s push to combat veterans homelessness. Shinseki acknowledged the problems with scheduling practices at VA facilities were “systemic” and called the behavior “indefensible.” Still, he said he took “responsibility for ...
... any shortcomings. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: If you ask me, you know, how do I think Eric Shinseki has performed overall, I would say that, on homelessness, on the 9/11 G.I. Bill, on working with us to reduce the backlog across the board, he has put his heart and ...
... family. According to the report, 30 percent of participants said abuse was a major factor in their decision to leave high school--22 percent said homelessness and 18 percent said spending time in juvenile detention. Additionally, participants said school policies that create unsafe, unsupportive, or disrespectful school climates also contributed ...
Seattle councilwoman Kshama Sawant is a leader in Seattle's movement to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. But even that, she says, won't be enough to overcome an economic system that's not working for America.
... people living in their cars face a fine as high as $1,000 or a six-month jail sentence. These measures are a response to homelessness, which has increased in certain metro areas during the recession, despite a nationwide dip: "With the dearth of affordable housing for folks, sometime they ...
On Dec. 28, 1.3 million Americans lost their unemployment insurance when an emergency federal unemployment insurance program expired. Critics of extended unemployment benefits say the benefits raise jobless numbers by allowing people to stay unemployed longer instead of taking an available job. But people like Trista Selmar-Steed, a 38-year-old former medical biller who lost her...
"Hunger Through My Lens" gives digital cameras to food stamp recipients and asks them to chronicle what it's like to be hungry in America. So far, 15 women --who come from all walks of life-- have participated. Over the months, they've formed a "sisterhood" of sorts, supporting and encouraging one another. One woman is a...
As a new wave of tech enterprises gentrify San Francisco’s older, modest neighborhoods, an area known as the Tenderloin, populated by the city’s poorer residents, remains in the grips of drugs and crime. Special correspondent Spencer Michels explores the dilemma of whether upgrading the neighborhood will result in inhabitants being displaced en masse.
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