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Stories from the Streets (May 10 – 16)

Dan Kerr (James Madison University) says America has a homelessness crisis. To find out why, he spoke to homeless people on the streets and in the shelters of Cleveland, Ohio, and he has recordings of those conversations to share. He’s found that the causes of homelessness lie in the lack of affordable housing and the decline in well paying industrial jobs.

Also: historian Dirk Philipsen (Virginia State University) says America is in the midst of a 30-year erosion of public policy and its victims are children, workers, homeless people, and prisoners.

WGR News Feature: Thousands of homeless people are living in shelters or in abandoned buildings or out of their cars in the Commonwealth.  A Virginia historian--who has spent years interviewing those who live from hand-to-mouth--says the homeless are less visible today but they are still very much with us.  Nancy King, with the radio program "With Good Reason," has more. Listen to the two and a half minute feature.