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October 28, 2018 – PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode

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In LA, poverty on Skid Row defies U.S.’s humane reputation

Sanitary and living conditions for an estimated 2,000 homeless people along Los Angeles’ Skid Row are so severe that the United Nations recently compared them to Syrian refugee camps. How does extreme poverty persist in one of the country’s most…

By Simon Ostrovsky

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