social services

Among the many harsh truths about American society exposed by the coronavirus pandemic is this one: Our social safety net is broken. NBCLX storyteller Cody Broadway looks at how the ripple effect of the broken safety net can be seen in things like an increase in crowdfunding campaigns to cover lost wages and health expenses and a growing strain on...

Advocates say new guidelines that disqualify more people from green cards if they use government benefits is prompting droves of immigrants to drop government social services

San Francisco Mayor London Breed joined dozens of first responders Wednesday morning to help carve Thanksgiving turkeys for some of the city’s residents in need.

Dozens of speakers urged the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors Tuesday to address an encampment along a section of the 8.5-mile public Joe Rodota Trail between Santa Rosa and Sebastopol.

Several Bay Area residents in need of social services walked away empty-handed Monday as Santa Clara County workers continued with the “rolling strike.”

Residents in need of social services are walking away empty handed as Santa Clara County workers continue with the “Rolling Strike”. Robert Handa reports.

When 73-year-old Randal Parker first moved to East Palo Alto with his family in 1952, he remembers open fields of agricultural land, a diverse and thriving working-class community and job opportunities for people of color.

San Francisco’s police chief apologized Monday for the way the department historically treated LGBTQ people and for “the harm that was caused.”

A non-profit community organization called Safe Embarcadero for All released video of yet another attack on the streets of Embarcadero.

Non-profit community organization Safe Embarcadero for All released video Thursday of yet another attack on the streets of San Francisco’s Embarcadero. Christie Smith reports.

Over the next two weeks, San Francisco Mayor London Breed will join nonprofits and local organizations to distribute school supplies and more than 5,000 backpacks to students for the coming school year.

The number of homeless people in Marin County declined slightly since 2017, but the number of chronically homeless people fell sharply, according to the point-in-time homeless count and survey in January.

Alameda County supervisors have made an offer to lease the Glenn Dyer Jail to the city of Oakland, county officials said. The jail could be used for homeless services.

Residents signing up for food stamps in Minnesota are provided a brochure about domestic violence, but it doesn’t matter if they even read the pamphlet. The mere fact it was made available could allow them to qualify for government food aid if their earnings or savings exceed federal limits. As odd as that might sound, it’s not actually unusual. Thirty-eight...

Jose Garcia carried a drawstring backpack full of used syringes as he walked into the converted shipping container that serves as the base for Florida’s only hypodermic needle exchange program. The 57-year-old carefully counted as he dropped 115 syringes one-by-one into a locked biohazard bin brimming with hundreds of other used needles. Garcia said the University of Miami pilot program...

With no prior offenses, a judge allowed Dujuan Armstrong to serve a month in custody and the rest of his burglary term on weekends in Santa Rita jail in Dublin — so he could support his family and keep his job as a tow truck driver.

The unusual death of a Bay Area man while he was in the Santa Rita Jail for the weekend is now a criminal case. NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit learned of this major development through records requests because the Sheriff’s Office refuses to discuss the death. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

President Donald Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Wednesday to economist Arthur Laffer, whose disputed theories on tax cuts have guided Republican policy since the 1980s. Laffer, 78, advised Trump during his presidential campaign and co-wrote a flattering book, “Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive Our Economy.” Laffer says lower tax rates change people’s behavior and...

Job gains in the services sectors continued to rocket higher in April as hiring remained hot for computer system designers, social workers and health-care professionals. Manufacturing, on the other hand, posted a third straight month of lackluster employment figures. CNBC studied the net changes by industry for April jobs based on the data from the Labor Department contained in the...

Yousuf Abdelfatah already knows the answer he’ll give about his race on the 2020 census questionnaire will be wrong. He’s an Arab American, but the only race options on the census are white, black, Asian and categories for American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander. Reluctantly, Abdelfatah will mark white. “If you look at me, my skin is darker,...