Five mornings a week for the past few months, Jalisa Bennett runs through the halls of a Kansas City homeless shelter with a singular mission — find someone with car keys willing to drive her to work.

In Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, we meet Celeste, who is dealing with a cancer diagnosis and moves into an extended-stay hotel after a fire burns down ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Homelessness in America is at a record high with more than 770,000 unhoused Americans in 2024. Shelter service agencies say the ...

A competition among working homeless people to see who could save the greatest percentage of their pay provided researchers with valuable insights that could be used to encourage middle class people ...

An increasing number of Kansas City families have jobs but still need shelter or assistance, due to the gap between the wages they earn and the cost of housing. It’s a formula for rising homelessness.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AUSTIN (KXAN) — The city of Austin is in the early stages of creating a dashboard that could eventually help Austinites see how ...

James Knowles and Markeeta Coleman, both employed, are facing homelessness in Jackson due to different circumstances, highlighting the struggles of the "working homeless."Knowles, who has battled drug ...