Is There Hope for the Homeless?

• Saving Homes With Mandatory Mediation

  Housing & Homelessness

  Pat Garofalo: Mandatory mediation programs are preventing foreclosures across the country. Congress should do more to support them.

• Ten Things You Need to Know to End Homelessness

  Ten Things

  Find an emergency prevention programs in your area, encourage no-strings attached outreach and more means to end homelessness.

• Ten Things You Need to Know to Live on the Streets

  Ten Things

  Learn the best bathroom options and soup kitchen schedules, carry a blanket, squat and more.

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• Can China's Wind Save the World?

  Energy

  Brett Story: The Nation's Christian Parenti explains how the growing industry of wind turbines can reduce harmful pollution and ultimately wean China off its coal addiction.

• 'Drop the Rock': Repeal Unfair Drug Laws

  Drug Policy/Drug War

  Brett Story: The change in leadership at the New York state level seems poised to make a dramatic change to the state's Rockefeller Drug Laws.

• Joseph Stiglitz on the Economic Meltdown

  U.S. Economy

  Brett Story: Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz explains what drove the US economy off a cliff and what steps need to be taken to rectify the situation.