By Adam Forrest @adamtomforrest Ten days on from Hurricane Harvey making landfall on the southern coast of Texas, the scale of terrible devastation is becoming clear. Officials in the US state have updated the death toll related to the flooding to 63. An... read more
What’s happening in Houston? Since Thursday, over 30 inches of rain have fallen on Houston and its surrounding area. Hurricane Harvey has already caused the worst flooding in Texas history, with rains expected to continue through Friday. Many in Houston... read more
HOUSTON — Cheryl Conley curled herself against a wall of the George R. Brown Convention Center on Friday, watching a family hauling their things to the exit, wishing she could do the same. Forced to leave her boarding house by Hurricane Harvey’s f... read more
When the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey left people and pets of Houston displaced, one homeless man gave up the comfort of a bed to help groom animals in need. When Hurricane Harvey hit the city of Houston, Texas, its residents were left to evacuate or s... read more
ByMADHURI SATHISH 4 weeks ago Tropical depression Harvey first formed in the Caribbean, but slowly dissipated due to less-than-ideal environmental conditions. It redeveloped in the Gulf of Mexico, however, and is expected to make landfall along the Texas ... read more
By Adam Forrest @adamtomforrest As many of The Big Issue’s magazine vendors know all too well, getting off the streets and out of homelessness can be extremely difficult. One ground-breaking initiative in Devon’s Torbay area has seen eight rough slee... read more
The GDP of America is an astronomical $18 trillion. To put it in perspective, if California seceded from the United States, it would have the eighth largest GDP of all the countries in the world (just beating out Italy). When you start to consider just ... read more
Connecticut is the first state with a formal partnership among state veterans agencies, a law school, and VSOs to help vets navigate the appeal process. A first-of-its-kind program now in place in Connecticut will help veterans who have post-traumatic str... read more
The United States, despite often advertising itself as the world’s “most developed” nation, has a major problem with homelessness, with approximately 3.5 million currently living with no place to call home. Even though vacant houses outnumber... read more
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – There is an unassuming building in Lexington, that serves as an emergency shelter for children ages six weeks to 18 years-old. Ginny Vicini runs Arbor Youth Services. “One side of the house is where the boys are, one si... read more
