I was recently in the Aberdeen train station at night and noticed a number of homeless people using the bathroom there, and at least one older woman who looked abandoned and alone. I have seen ...

It was a chilly morning one day earlier this month when Jeff Levine, the Long Beach Rescue Mission’s new executive director, went looking for people living on city streets. “A serious storm was coming ...

A Portland woman told a group of homeless men she suspected of stealing her phone that she had no problem with them ripping off “rich scum’’ — just not her, new video shows. The woman — taking a page ...

Mike Tyson has people scratching their heads after the boxing legend suggested homeless people are kidnapped off the streets and hunted by rich people. The bizarre theory came while Tyson was speaking ...

The Bloomington Herald-Times, an Indiana-based newspaper, laid off its senior executive editor and evicted him out of his apartment, which was owned by the paper, and he is now homeless. Rich Jackson ...

That’s according to the Department of Veterans Affairs National Homeless Program Office. Officials say the goal for this ...

Almost 80 years ago, in 1943, Los Angeles introduced the rest of the United States to the phenomenon of smog. At one point that year, the haze had visibility down a frightening three city blocks. In L ...

As inequality rises in the United States, the rich and poor are increasingly unlikely to interact with one another. We use data on “311” calls reporting homeless individuals in New York City between ...

What was your first reaction when you learned you were being laid off? Shock. I’m not an angry person, and the news was broken to me by a dear friend whom I’ve known for 20 years. He made the trip to ...

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The pandemic is causing inequality to soar, but increasingly the privileged are discovering that they can’t bend the world to their will. By Ginia Bellafante On Monday, a group of Upper West Siders ...