In the Army you live by the Warrior Ethos, which states, "I will always place the mission first. I will never quit. I will never accept defeat. I will never leave a fallen comrade behind."
With a simple, declarative statement, the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs announced his ambitious goal to eradicate one of the country's most shameful problems.
Elena Espinoza came to Miami's Mercy Hospital with abdominal pain. Peruvian born, she works as a housekeeper. She has no insurance. She's afraid. Afraid of the pain and discomfort in her stomach, and intimidated by the building and the system she has come to for help -- for which she can't pay.
More than 37 million people visit Las Vegas each year for its glitz, glamour and lure of hitting a jackpot. Yet few tourists ever see the dingy world beneath the bright lights: tunnel dwellings that have become home to those down on their luck.
Just a few years ago, Ron Kenebrew was in prison. When he got out, he moved from Arizona to Minnesota, but he soon wound up homeless.
Sevket Sahintas works the night shift driving his taxi around Istanbul, Turkey, from midnight until dawn.
Following a faint trail through a dense patch of woods in Florida's Palm Beach County, Roy Foster is a man on a mission.
In cities across the country, people with nowhere to live have done what many would have thought unthinkable before the economic crisis: moved into tents.
When Iraq war veteran Angela Peacock is in the shower, she sometimes closes her eyes and can't help reliving the day in Baghdad in 2003 that pushed her closer to the edge.
It may have a fairy tale ending -- a story of perseverance and second chances that's playing out live on the public stage of online networking.
In the Army you live by the Warrior Ethos, which states, "I will always place the mission first. I will never quit. I will never accept defeat. I will never leave a fallen comrade behind."
With a simple, declarative statement, the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs announced his ambitious goal to eradicate one of the country's most shameful problems.
Elena Espinoza came to Miami's Mercy Hospital with abdominal pain. Peruvian born, she works as a housekeeper. She has no insurance. She's afraid. Afraid of the pain and discomfort in her stomach, and intimidated by the building and the system she has come to for help -- for which she can't pay.
More than 37 million people visit Las Vegas each year for its glitz, glamour and lure of hitting a jackpot. Yet few tourists ever see the dingy world beneath the bright lights: tunnel dwellings that have become home to those down on their luck.
Just a few years ago, Ron Kenebrew was in prison. When he got out, he moved from Arizona to Minnesota, but he soon wound up homeless.
Sevket Sahintas works the night shift driving his taxi around Istanbul, Turkey, from midnight until dawn.
Following a faint trail through a dense patch of woods in Florida's Palm Beach County, Roy Foster is a man on a mission.
In cities across the country, people with nowhere to live have done what many would have thought unthinkable before the economic crisis: moved into tents.
When Iraq war veteran Angela Peacock is in the shower, she sometimes closes her eyes and can't help reliving the day in Baghdad in 2003 that pushed her closer to the edge.
It may have a fairy tale ending -- a story of perseverance and second chances that's playing out live on the public stage of online networking.
When Sergio Arias returned to civilian life in Oxnard, California, visions of war still haunted him.
At the edge of a shopping center in midtown Atlanta, Georgia, several men have turned waiting into an art. They stand idly in the hopes of getting work.
Over the last two calendar years, more Americans in the United States were killed in a little-noticed spate of unprovoked attacks than were killed by terrorists, in large commercial jet crashes or in racial hate crimes.
Once he roamed the streets, moving from shelter to shelter. Now, Oliver Gomes rubs shoulders with Washington's elite.
Homeless families in suburban and rural areas jumped by 56% in 2008, according to a government report released Thursday.
A year ago, Ed Neufeldt worked happily as a swingman at one of the plants that made this northeastern Indiana county America's RV Capital. Last fall, however, the plant closed, and Neufeldt, 62, became one of its casualties. Now, he is on a crew of volunteer ex-plant workers building a local homeless shelter's new wing. Recently, he landed a part-time bread delivery job -- the 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. shift a couple days a week. His first check? $120. "It's not much," Neufeldt conceded on a recent afternoon, adding, "It feels good, just to get paid to work."
Mr. Ravenblade, Mr. Xtreme, Dark Guardian and hundreds of others. Some with elaborate costumes, others with haphazardly stitched outfits, they are appearing on city streets worldwide watching over the populace like Superman watched over Metropolis and Batman over Gotham City.
The tears begin and her voice trembles as Ruth Martinez remembers the first few days of her new world.
Sheila Wash greets her son and daughter, 13-year-old Cecil and 9-year-old Sheliah, every day when their school buses arrive "home."
The homeless Florida woman who made a tearful plea for help from President Obama earlier this year is still jobless and struggling financially.
Jamie Foxx suffered through his own psychological turmoil while plunging into the role of a mentally ill musician in "The Soloist," the actor said.
The homeless men and women shuffle across the frozen ground of the tent camp and surround a steel drum burning wood. They use the flames to cook food and to stay warm.
Richard Barboza sits behind the steering wheel, patiently working a crossword puzzle. There's no rush. Time is one thing Barboza has plenty of.
When Sean Dolan saw signs being carried by homeless people, he saw an opportunity.
Brenda Gardenhire shows off her new home with pride. It looks like an oversized shopping cart covered with a khaki canvas. But to her, it's "wonderful" -- a stepping stone to get her off the streets and get her life back in order.
One in 50 children is homeless in the United States every year, according to a report released Tuesday.
Some people feel a twinge of guilt at hotel checkout time when they see the small bottles of complimentary soap and shampoo that will be thrown out when they leave the room.
Some of the people hit hardest by this bad economy are the youngest. Almost 2 million children nationwide have had or will have their lives disrupted by home foreclosures, according to one study.
She's being hailed as the "face of the economic crisis," and now Henrietta Hughes has become something of a media star after reaching out to President Obama in an emotional plea for help.
Anne Naggayi's middle son is always trying to help her come up with new job-search strategies. Recently he watched the movie The Pursuit of Happyness, starring Will Smith as a homeless man who talks his way into financial success, and told his mother that she should follow his lead. "Mom, you should be like this man," he said. "Tell them your story."
With apologies to Hughes Means:
At 5 a.m. on any given day, Anne Mahlum could be found running the dark streets of Philadelphia -- with homeless men cheering her on as she passed their shelter. But one morning last spring, she stopped in her tracks.
Until recently, Navy veteran Joe O'Boyle had no home.
The young royal's shocking advice helps put one nervous admirer at ease in London
A horrendous attack on a street person in Los Angeles once again raises the issue of protecting the homeless
In the middle of an economic crisis, with a lot of Americans worried to death about how they are going to pay their bills, our two presidential candidates are about to spend an astonishing amount of money kicking the "you know what" out of each other on national television.
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