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  1. The Answer to Homelessness? Reliable Employment. Catharine Fletcher suns herself in front of one of over a hundred brilliant pink tents newly set-up as a shelter for homeless people Monday, Sept. 22, 2008, in Seattle. Homeless advocates in Seattle set up a new camp early Monday that they're calling Nickelsville after Mayor Greg Nickels to demonstrate the need for more homeless shelters in the city. Fletcher is no longer homeless, but was helping out at the encampment. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
    2 Feb 2015 … Providing housing is critical, but the ultimate solution to ending homelessness is preventing it in the first place. Continue reading
  2. Meet Randall Woodfin, the Mayoral Challenger Bringing the Political Revolution to Birmingham Democratic mayoral candidate Randall Woodfin listens to Birmingham resident Mike Hamilton. (Photo by Katherine Webb-Hehn)
    8 Aug 2017 … Mike Hamilton opens his door in a sleeveless Harley Davidson shirt. He’s got a shaggy goatee and a big grin. “Randall Woodfin!” the 63-year-old web developer says before any introductions. Continue reading
  3. No Safe Place: How Cities Are Making it Illegal to Be Homeless A homeless woman rests under a shade tree as children play at Lions park in Costa Mesa, Calif. October 2012. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
    8 Aug 2014 … Laws criminalizing sitting, sleeping, lying down and camping leave homeless people with nowhere to go when the shelter system fails them. Continue reading
  4. The Great Eviction: The Landscape of Wall Street’s Creative Destruction
    8 Aug 2013 … The foreclosure crisis hit African Americans particularly hard with disastrous consequences for many communities, writes Laura Gottesdiener. Continue reading
  5. Lessons for K-12 From Pre-K Classrooms In this photo taken May 7, 2012, students in a kindergarten classroom at North Valley Academy in Gooding, Idaho wear red, white and blue shirts as part of their school uniform. The K-12th grade public charter school is the first in Idaho to advertise itself as a patriotic choice for parents, with an emphasis on individual freedoms and free-market capitalism. (AP Photo/Jessie L. Bonner)
    5 May 2014 … A new report says high school students perform worse the older they get. A pre-K administrator believes that bringing some lessons from pre-K to K-12 classrooms could make a difference. Continue reading
  6. Trump’s Second Gilded Age: Overcoming the Rule of Billionaires and Militarists Trump Tower in Manhattan on Oct. 8, 2016. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
    12 Dec 2016 … This post was first published on CounterPunch. During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump made it clear that he liked the uneducated and that once he assumed the presidency, he would appoint a range of incompetent people to high-ranking positions that Continue reading
  7. Papal Tweets of Note Pope Francis greets the faithful as he leaves the village of Castel Gandolfo, the pontiffs' summer residence in the hills overlooking Rome in August. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
    12 Dec 2013 … Pope Francis took over the papal Twitter feed earlier this year. He tweets about the same topics he speaks about: the importance of caring for those less fortunate than ourselves and what it means to live charitably. Here's a sampling. Continue reading
  8. Losing Hope in Detroit
    5 May 2013 … Despite the 'get Americans back to work' rhetoric in Washington, job-training programs in Michigan are being squeezed by sequestration. Continue reading
  9. Voters Gave Corporate Education “Reform” a Big Defeat on Election Day
    11 Nov 2013 … Bridgeport is a microcosm of education policy battles taking place across the country Continue reading
  10. How the Government Subsidizes Inequality
    9 Sep 2013 … A new study by Demos recommends capping executive pay as a requirement for government contracts to cut down on income inequality. Continue reading