An oral-history project documenting some of the least heard people in American society: those with no permanent address
Living by Coyote Creek in San Jose isn't an easy way of life, and it's one that homeless Dan would rather forget.
Tuesday on the NewsHour, as rising omicron cases keep many at home, we explain the new CDC recommendations for shorter isolation times. Then, the Russian government bans the most prominent human rights group as the world marks 30 years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. And, how the roller coaster price of lumber might have predicted inflation and could signal where the U.S. economy goes.
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Extreme weather events are becoming more and more common, with records shattered down under during Australia's recent heatwave, and now, at the opposite end of the spectrum, the 'polar vortex' turning Midwestern U.S. into a winter wonderland.
After photos of metal spikes designed to prevent homeless people from sleeping in posh London neighborhoods surfaced online, people have been venting their outrage with controversial invention all over the social media. Homelessness rife in UK:
Philp Alston, the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, has spent 10 days touring America. This is the introduction to his report
Reshoring initiatives and the “Made in the U.S.A.” drive promise more jobs, but do they deliver?
Taken at 14th street F subway station. This is a better process and crop of this photo at higher rez.
According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), there were roughly 554,000 homeless people. A total of 193,000 of those people
Prosecuting people for sleeping in public "violates their constitutional rights."
The camp near DC's Watergate complex is one of many that has sprung up around the city during the Covid pandemic, with locals pushing for evictions and limits on their sizes.
Residents and geologists alike have been perplexed by this new discovery.
Soy traders are devastating South America’s forests, and it needs to stop.
More than 500,000 people were homeless in the United States at the end of last year. Many who find themselves living on the streets find a level of community and security in homeless encampments.
"To understand what’s going on in “the economy,” it is a serious mistake to look at average statistics," writes Ray Dalio.
Jon Henley: Fed up with the 'lack of militancy' of political organisations, the London Black Revs now plan to target police brutality, institutional racism and unfair evictions
It’s the stale stench of liquor and human waste that hits you first. Then it's visual -- row after row of dirty tarp tents crammed together on the sidewalk next to piles rotting trash and broken appliances. There are half-dressed, drugged-out shells of people wandering aimlessly in the middle of the street. Some curse at cars. Others just stare. There are fights, prostitution and rodent burrows. This is Los Angeles and it's a disaster.
America’s homeless are organizing their own ways to live with dignity.
From the outside looking in: It is probably a $350,000 slice of land they live on. Too small for a high rise, but perfect for a small home a townhouse. It is walking distance to the finer dining experiences, baseball and football games. They live in downtown Nashville, but lack running wa
GiGi graduated high school at 14 and was accepted to Stanford; she's now been homeless for decades. Here's how her story starts.
Homelessness is a complex and intractable problem, but technology and innovation can help fill in the gaps.
Detroit-born photographer Mark Laita questions what it is in life that puts people, who were born equal, to follow completely different paths. Each of his diptychs compare two people, who have some kind of a connection that ends up being the biggest contrast between them: for example, out-laws are put next to policemen, school drop-outs next to college graduates, and Amish teens are paired with punk teenagers.
Some call it an artists colony, others a squatters' paradise. Either way, it attracts lots of visitors, billing itself as the last free place in America. So, what's it really like?
America’s homeless are organizing their own ways to live with dignity.
As cities across North America grapple with homelessness, a new project visualizes how a growing number of homeless people in Vancouver have set up tent communities over the past three years.
How innovations in photography helped this 19th century journalist improve life for many of his fellow immigrants
While 40 new beds will be made available for people experiencing homelessness in Halifax, they aren’t here yet — and in the meantime, shelters are trying to make do with the resources they have.
How innovations in photography helped this 19th century journalist improve life for many of his fellow immigrants
"We're fulfilling that commitment today and we will continue to work with Johnny's team to make sure he's receiving all donated amounts."
Lewis Wickes Hine (1874 – 1940), een Amerikaanse fotograaf die in dienst stond van een betere wereld. Hij wilde mensen aan de hand van fotografie bewust maken van de misstanden in de Amerikaanse sa…
Detroit-born photographer Mark Laita questions what it is in life that puts people, who were born equal, to follow completely different paths. Each of his diptychs compare two people, who have some kind of a connection that ends up being the biggest contrast between them: for example, out-laws are put next to policemen, school drop-outs next to college graduates, and Amish teens are paired with punk teenagers.
As America comes down with Covid-19 again, stores, restaurants, airlines and other industries have few other options but to serve customers less — or not at all.
Talk about perseverance.
