Domestic Workers Now Facing Homelessness Survey finds workers struggling without access to social safety net In a survey conducted at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, black immigrant domestic workers in Boston and other cities explained the...
Spacious cooling centers, misting oases, open hydrants, and more The days of a refreshing plunge in a public pool or a cold beer at a baseball game won’t be happening anytime soon in New York City. But while many of the summer pastimes New Yorkers...
Pandemic Exacerbates Challenges of Homelessness It’s one thing to “shelter in place” when you have a place to go. It’s quite another thing to be homeless, like many families and children in Ulster County, and have no space of your own during a...
From Corcoran and Avenal state prisons in the arid Central Valley to historical San Quentin on the San Francisco Bay, California prisons have emerged as raging COVID-19 hot spots, even as the state annually spends more on inmate health care than other big states spend...
Shirley Raines is behind Beauty 2 The Streetz, a nonprofit that has supported Skid Row’s homeless community for the last three years and is now helping them combat coronavirus It’s an early Saturday morning in May and a line of nearly a hundred people,...
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