Tag: Poverty
Hungary’s government spars with mayor over homeless hospital
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary's right-wing government and the liberal leadership of the country's capital city are absorbed in a conflict over a hospital for...
Judge orders LA to offer shelter for homeless on Skid Row
LOS ANGELES — A federal judge overseeing a sweeping lawsuit about homelessness in Los Angeles on Tuesday ordered the city and county to find...
LA homeless spending could near $1B as crisis rages
LOS ANGELES — Faced with an out-of-control homeless crisis, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Monday will propose spending nearly $1 billion in the...
‘Hillbilly’ to Capitol Hill? Author eyes Senate bid in Ohio
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — Rodney Muterspaw figures J.D. Vance has already shown he's got what it takes to be a U.S. senator.
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Surge in violence rattles Haiti as poverty, fear deepens
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The attack was brazen, streamed live on the internet: Men carrying big guns walked into a Holy Thursday church service, grabbed...
Saudi university catches fire near Yemen border in attack
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia — A Saudi university near the country's border with Yemen caught fire early Wednesday after the kingdom's air defenses intercepted a...
Syria devalues its local currency against the U.S. dollar
BEIRUT — Syria devalued the official price of its local currency on Thursday two days after the central bank governor was sacked, state media...
UN warns COVID-19 is `roaring back’ as Yemen faces famine
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. humanitarian chief warned Thursday that the world’s largest humanitarian crisis in Yemen is getting even worse with the COVID-19...
Poll: 15% of Americans worse off a year into pandemic
While most Americans have weathered the pandemic financially, about 38 million say they are worse off now than before the outbreak began in the...
EXPLAINER: The law and science behind the CDC’s eviction ban
When the U.S. government enacted a ban on evictions, it did so through an unlikely agency: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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