WASHINGTON, D.C. — Before the crack of dawn, something’s on the rise inside the kitchen of Mission Muffins. “We teach work skills, in this case, specifically, baking skills,” said Tony Casson. Mission ...

For the first time in a long time, Karl Ely figured he had pretty much everything he needed. Ely moved to Portland from Philadelphia several decades ago. The aspiring artist worked as a line cook and ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. With more than 187,000 people sleeping on California’s streets and in its shelters, the state’s homeless services ...

Going into this past fall, Victor White had been unemployed for two years. He was searching for a job that would lift him from food insecurity he had come to now and was also facing homelessness. In ...

Jordan Foley ticks off what he didn’t have when he started an intensive 13-week solar job training program on the West Side: money, a bed, clothes, food. The fear that the program wouldn’t be able to ...

A Hawaii island man’s journey from homelessness to steady employment shows what’s possible when job seekers get the right support. When Kevin Aki Jr. first attended an American Job Center Hawaii ...