Hope House in Jennings, Mo., on Dec. 11. The house was a school building that was converted to a shelter for homeless students. Photo: © Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post
by Emma Brown Washington Post December 20, 2015
JENNINGS, Mo. — School districts don’t usually operate homeless shelters for their students. Nor do they often run food banks or have a system in place to provide whatever clothes kids need. Few offer regular access to pediatricians and mental he...
Hundreds of miles, but only 11 grocery stores. Source:
Diné Policy Institute. Map by Alex Newman/Al Jazeera America.
by Tristan Ahtone and Jolene Yazzie Al Jazeera December 14, 2015
Steven Thompson grew up poor on Navajo Nation. After nearly three decades on a diet built around potatoes, lunch meat and canned goods, he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes; his right leg was amputated as a result of complications from the disease e...