Tiara Booker was striking out. She had been looking for months for a place to live using her housing voucher, and she was facing the public housing authority’s deadline to lease a unit with the ...

Housing vouchers, which typically cover a portion of a participant’s rent, are a key tool to fighting homelessness in an increasingly unaffordable city. But they can be hard to use. Host Kadisha Davis ...

Admittedly, we don’t know where Miss Manners stands on the propriety of using public dollars on lessons in the arts of ballroom dance and social graces. But we do know that the ladies and gentlemen at ...

FILE: Students raise their hands in Lindsey Wuest's Science As Art class at A.D. Henderson School in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, April 16, 2024. When teachers at the K-8 public school, one of the ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Alma Nuñez, a longtime South Phoenix restaurant cashier with three kids, attended a community event a few years ago at which a speaker gave a ...