Getting Off the Streets: Blackout (Chapter 1)
Meet the four homeless men that are trying to change their lives. They are fighting addiction, poverty, and their pasts to get off the streets-- but in all wars, there are casualties.
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Getting Off the Streets: Healing Hurts (Chapter 3)
The Homelessness Hospitality Network encourages its participants to confront the internal struggles that led them to addiction and homelessness. As they come face-to-face with their inner demons, it becomes harder to stay in the program.
Getting Off the Streets: New Man (Chapter 4)
With only a few weeks left in the program, the remaining men prepare for life off the streets. What challenges wait for them there?
Getting Off the Streets: Ready to go Home (Chapter 5)
After the nearly seven-month journey, a few men stand at graduation day. However, their path, as well as the issue of homelessness, doesn't end here. Who was able to make it and where are they now?
Getting Off the Streets: Trailer
Getting Off the Streets chronicles the dramatic journey of four homeless men from the streets of Camden, New Jersey, who have an opportunity to change their lives. Over six months, our cameras followed them in a rigorous homelessness rehabilitation program.…
Children’s Defense Fund Helping Students “Beat the Odds”
Students dealing with poverty, abuse and instability at home often have a harder time achieving academic success and going on to higher education. The non-profit Children's Defense Fund-New York advocates for children's rights, and we have a look at the…
Race and Class in America
A new documentary “Quest,” provides a vivid look at race and class in America, and delivers a testament to love, healing and hope. We have your preview.
After-School Funding
We’re headed Upstate to Sharon Springs, New York, where children will have after school programing for the first time in a decade.
BUSTED #3: Rags to Riches (LISTEN)
Is America a land of equal opportunity and upward mobility for all?
BUSTED #1: The Poverty Tour (LISTEN)
We ex;pre how our understanding of poverty is shaped, not by facts, but by private presumptions, media narratives, and the tales of the American Dream.
Reaching the Vulnerable
What's being done to reach the most vulnerable? Homeless outreach workers canvass the streets of New York City 365 days a year, trying to connect with homeless individuals and ultimately, bring them in off the streets. Thousands still live on…
Older Renters Are Getting Squeezed
By: Richard Eisenberg (Editor’s Note: This story is part of a partnership between Next Avenue and Chasing the Dream, a public media initiative on poverty and opportunity.) Boomers and Gen Xers are now the most “rent-burdened” Americans, according to a new…