National
SOURCE:COMMON DREAMS A comprehensive Government Accountability Office study commissioned by Sen. Bernie Sanders and published Monday found that low-income Americans have significantly shorter lives than the rich, leading the Vermont senator to declare that poverty in...
Hunger, National
Sourc: Los Angeles Times Across the planet, more than a billion tons of essential, nutritious, life-sustaining food goes to waste each year. It is being eaten by weevils in sub-Saharan Africa and inadvertently passed over by harvesters in the rice fields of Southeast...
Homelessness, National
SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST AUSTIN — Christopher Paul hasn’t felt a police officer tapping at his foot in more than a month — the tap, tap, tap that usually meant he was about to get another citation that he was never going to pay. Living on the streets for five years...
Homelessness, National
Nine more have ended veteran homelessness. It’s part of a national program called Built for Zero that uses a data-based approach to help officials figure out exactly who needs what services. Now it’s accelerating its work in 50 more cities. By Adele Peters In late...
Homelessness, National
Addressing housing directly is cheaper than relying on cops and emergency rooms. By Matthew Yglesias Even as the national economy continues its slow-but-steady pace of improvement, data released by the Department of Housing and Urban Development in December revealed a...
