When it comes to applying to some of the top high schools here in New York City, students from low-income families face an uphill battle. That’s where Breakthrough New York steps in. As part of our ongoing initiative” Chasing The…
The national average rate of recidivism among prison inmates hovers above 60 percent. With the help of organizations like Rehabilitation Through the Arts, or RTA, that number plummets to about five percent. RTA is a creative arts program operating in…
About 1.4 million New Yorkers - many of them women, children, elderly and disabled - rely on food pantries and soup kitchens. Tonight's latest installment of our ongoing reporting initiative, Chasing the Dream: Poverty and Opportunity in America, takes a…
America has the largest prison population in the world, and in New York City, 4000 people are locked up in jail, although they haven't been convicted of any crime. They remain there, awaiting trial, not because their crime demands it,…
Food waste is perhaps one of the biggest problems in the world that people are not talking about. You may not realize it, but statistics show the average American throws away over 20 pounds of food each month. With about…
A few weeks ago, we reported on the city homeless shelters you may have stayed in before: hotels. PIX 11 reporters Jay Dow and Mario Diaz joined us to show these "homeless hotels" in New York City that started housing…
Tonight, we talk with the producer of Newsday's documentary, "The Last Trailer Park" that follows a Nassau family's struggle to avoid eviction. Then, Harvard University professor Matthew Desmond tells us about the harsh realities of living in a trailer park…
It’s a phenomenon that experts call the “school-to-prison pipeline” and that actor and activist Anna Deavere Smith calls “Notes from the Field: Doing Time In School.” As part of our “Chasing The Dream” series, we take you to a distinguished…
On any given night in New York City, nearly 23,00 children will lay their heads down in a homeless shelter. That’s more than a full-house at Madison Square Garden and more than two-thirds of the city’s total shelter population. (According…
After JFK's assassination, we look at the legacy of the man who succeeded him: Lyndon B. Johnson. A cornerstone of his legacy was to the Great Society he founded to finally create real upward mobility for all Americans. But after…
A new study finds cognitive development may be impaired by poverty.