• The long-term health risks as extreme heat becomes a new normal

    The long-term health risks as extreme heat becomes a new normal

    Jul 04, 2025 10:45 PM EST

    ... a deep burn when exposed to that. Stephanie Sy: While heat-related illness and injury can hit anyone in these extreme summer months, people experiencing homelessness and substance users are at particularly high risk, accounting for a disproportionate number of heat-related deaths in recent years. Perla Puebla: Morning. Circle ...

  • The power of stories helps young people overcome differences

    The power of stories helps young people overcome differences

    Jun 30, 2025 10:25 PM EST

    Jeffrey Brown: Santa Fe is known for its beauty, Indian market, and other features that make it a tourist mecca. But it's also rife with homelessness, disparities of wealth, and tensions around immigration, all reflected in the experiences and stories of students from different high schools in different parts ...

  • 46 programs Trump wants to eliminate, according to his proposed budget

    46 programs Trump wants to eliminate, according to his proposed budget

    Jun 05, 2025 08:14 PM EST

    ... with making sure there is no discrimination in contracting. $111 million. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. $14 million. Health and living programs Administration for Community Living, which supports older and disabled Americans' ability to live independently. More than $2.4 billion. U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness. $4 million.

  • How Democratic and Republican mayors are teaming up to address the housing crisis

    How Democratic and Republican mayors are teaming up to address the housing crisis

    Jun 03, 2025 10:40 PM EST

    A bipartisan group of mayors and business leaders are teaming up to tackle housing and homelessness issues nationwide. They’re meeting as the Trump administration looks to slash assistance programs amid record-high homelessness. Amna Nawaz spoke with two mayors leading the effort, Long Beach, California, Mayor Rex Richardson, a ...

  • How likely 2028 Democratic contenders are using podcasts to reshape their image

    How likely 2028 Democratic contenders are using podcasts to reshape their image

    May 26, 2025 09:56 PM EST

    ... been chummy. Newsom — who has in recent weeks broken with California's legislature and faced liberal criticism for his positioning on trans issues, immigration and homelessness — has fielded backlash for giving a platform to some of his party's biggest critics. Newsom has also drawn criticism for opposing the participation ...

  • George Floyd’s uncle reflects on the fight for social justice 5 years after police killing

    George Floyd’s uncle reflects on the fight for social justice 5 years after police killing

    May 25, 2025 10:55 PM EST

    ... Tell me about your efforts. Selwyn Jones: You know, I've got a foundation that we created, Justice 929. And we want to work on homelessness, we want to work on mental health issues, we want to work on domestic violence, police brutality, obviously, social justice, wrongfully convicted. There will ...

  • Older Americans at risk as government restarts Social Security garnishment on student loan debt

    Older Americans at risk as government restarts Social Security garnishment on student loan debt

    May 15, 2025 06:56 PM EST

    ... half. People take drastic measures like pulling all their savings out or dissolving their 401ks,” he says. “We know folks that have been driven into homelessness.” Collections on defaulted loans may have restarted no matter who was president, though the Biden administration had sought to limit the amount of income ...

  • Newsom urges California cities and counties to ban homeless encampments

    Newsom urges California cities and counties to ban homeless encampments

    May 12, 2025 06:58 PM EST

    ... Homelessness. In 2024, California voters approved a measure that imposes strict requirements on counties to spend on housing and drug treatment programs to tackle the homelessness crisis. It was a signature proposal for Newsom, who campaigned for the measure’s passage. Under the measure, counties are required to spend about ...

  • How this 'vessel of freedom' in Oklahoma honors Vietnamese refugees who built new lives in America

    How this 'vessel of freedom' in Oklahoma honors Vietnamese refugees who built new lives in America

    Apr 30, 2025 07:02 PM EST

    After five days adrift, a Panamanian cargo ship traveling to Singapore appeared. The wife of the captain spotted a young baby on the fishing vessel, Nguyen’s infant nephew, and begged her husband to turn around. Nguyen’s family were saved from the seas, but faced several years of homelessness ...

  • Most AAPI adults don't support cutting federal agencies, new poll shows

    Most AAPI adults don't support cutting federal agencies, new poll shows

    Mar 12, 2025 05:31 PM EST

    ... nation's education system. Around 6 in 10 say the same about improving the nation's health, protecting the environment and addressing the problem of homelessness. There is one area where more AAPI adults see spending as excessive: Like Hong, about half of AAPI adults say “too much” is being ...