by BFTS | Jun 30, 2020 | National News
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... 
by BFTS | Jun 29, 2020 | Insight
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... 
by BFTS | Jun 29, 2020 | News
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... 
by BFTS | Jun 29, 2020 | National News
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... 
by BFTS | Jun 28, 2020 | Insight
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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