• Filmmakers explore sex trafficking abuses in 'Tricked' documentary

    Filmmakers explore sex trafficking abuses in 'Tricked' documentary

    Feb 01, 2014 09:30 PM EST

    ... one of them is the socioeconomic factors that make people more vulnerable to the manipulation that comes from pimps. And that can be runaway children, homelessness, hunger, and other factors. We weren't able to touch deeply on that and that's a huge factor. I think that there is ...

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    Vets in Boston help each other stay off the streets

    Dec 24, 2013 09:50 PM EST

    ... which funds the effort, is considering doubling the size of the team in the coming year. President Barack Obama's administration has pledged to eliminate homelessness among veterans by the end of 2015. And while the rate has been dropping, time is running short. So communities such as Boston are ...

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    South Carolina city council reconsiders its policy on the homeless

    Sep 09, 2013 07:40 PM EST

    Video still by PBS NewsHour Check out the excellent coverage by the reporters on the ground @yesevamoore of @FreeTimesSC. Hari Sreenivasan reported how various cities from Bogota, Columbia to Columbia, S.C. are responding to homelessness.

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    Blacks, Hispanics More Optimistic than Whites

    Aug 01, 2013 04:48 PM EST

    ... available." The hopeful include John Harris III, 23, of Washington, D.C., a recent graduate of historically black Howard University who now works to reduce homelessness through the AmeriCorps program. Part of the first generation of college students who saw Obama get elected, Harris says he and many fellow black ...

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    Sleeping Bag Coat for the Homeless Finds Fans in the Fashion World

    May 06, 2013 01:00 PM EST

    ... tasked Scott and her classmates with creating a product that would fill a need rather than something faddish. And in Detroit, Scott said, taking on homelessness made sense. "Once you start talking to people, no matter what you're doing, whether you're in the public schools or you're ...

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    How Modern Finance Promises to Break the Cycle of Recidivism

    Mar 14, 2013 03:13 PM EST

    ... bond paying between 2 percent and 9 percent. The payback is based on the performance of the social organization. So if I'm to reduce homelessness or prevent criminal recidivism among juveniles, I have to generate empirical data that shows my success rate. The eventual payment is based on that ...

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    School Reform Program Targets Students at Risk of Falling Behind, Dropping Out

    Mar 11, 2013 04:00 AM EST

    ... of behavior issues, Charbonnet also inherited a school where one in four of the students were failing and the district was seeing a spike in homelessness. BroadmoorMiddle School is made up of mostly minority students and 95 percent of them are eligible for free or reduced-priced lunch, meaning the ...

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    What Can Children Tell Us About Growing Up Poor?

    Nov 20, 2012 09:08 PM EST

    Watch Poor Kids Preview on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE. In Frontline's latest documentary, Poor Kids, children are all too aware of their family's financial situation. With one in five children living below the poverty line, Poor Kids explores daily life of living hand to mouth and not having enough, through the eyes of children....

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    From Homeless to Homecoming and Beyond

    Nov 15, 2012 11:39 PM EST

    Football Coach Natalie Randolph is clear: 'If you don't go to study hall, you don't practice. If you don't practice, you don't play.' The nation's first female high school football head coach inspires her team on and off the field.

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    Forgotten Voters: D.C. Volunteers Work to Register the Homeless

    Oct 31, 2012 06:15 PM EST

    George Washington University graduate students help Nathaniel Hipps, left, register to vote at D.C.'s MLK Jr. Memorial Library as part of a larger registration effort led by the National Coalition for the Homeless. Photo by Emily Wilkins/Scripps Howard Foundation Wire. On a Saturday afternoon earlier this month, about a dozen college students from George Washington...