Millions of hungry Americans turn to food banks for 1st time
Hunger is a harsh reality in the richest country in the world. Even during times of prosperity, schools hand out millions of hot meals a day to children, and desperate...
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Millions of hungry Americans turn to food banks for 1st time
The deadly pandemic that tore through the nation’s heartland struck just as Aaron Crawford was in a moment of crisis. He was looking for work, his wife needed surgery, then...
For pandemic jobless, the only real certainty is uncertainty
For three decades, Kelly Flint flourished as a corporate travel agent, sending everyone from business titans to oil riggers around the planet. Then came the worst pandemic in a century,...
AP Investigation: Many U.S. jails fail to stop inmate suicides
A joint investigation by The Associated Press and the University of Maryland鈥檚 Capital News Service finds that scores of jails have been sued or investigated in recent years for allegedly...
Mass shootings create rippling network of stricken survivors
The unending litany of mass shootings in recent years has built an unacknowledged community of heartbreak, touching and warping the lives of untold thousands.