Community Colleges tackle student homelessness and food insecurity

Jun. 29, 2017

Photo courtesy of U.S. Department of Agriculture

From this Episode:

How community colleges help students struggling with housing and food

A new survey of students at LA’s Community Colleges finds that one in five is homeless, and two-thirds are food insecure. Meanwhile, a leader from Santa Barbara City College...

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Big businesses in L.A. will raise their minimum wage from $10.50 to $12 an hour this Saturday. But in Seattle, a new study found that the lowest paid employees saw a drop in...

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The U.S. government's doomsday plan to protect itself -- but probably not you

For the last 60 years, the U.S. government has kept up a multi-billion dollar program to save people and retaliate after a major attack, like a nuclear strike from a foreign...

15 min

Facebook moderator: Biggest censorship job in history?

A massive ransomware attack started in Ukraine on Tuesday and then went global. And ProPublica published a big investigation into Facebook’s secret moderation methods this...

9 min

Credits

Host:

Madeleine Brand

Producers:

Gina Pollack, Sarah Sweeney, Michell Eloy, Amy Ta, Christian Bordal, Quinn O'Toole