This week, we talk about the difficulties of holding down a job but having no home to go to at the end of the day.
We’ll also look at the growing number of homeless families in Massachusetts. There are nearly 1200 families living in transitional housing or shelters across the state. The Departmen of Education says Massachusetts has 40,000 homeless schoolchildren. In Boston, forty percent of the homeless are working.
Listen to the full show:
Audio for http://www.bu.edu/wbur/storage/2007/12/radioboston_1221.mp3
Plus, in our web specials: Resoruces for those in need, and David Boeri’s report from Salisbury, MA, where almost a third of the students at the local elementary school are homeless…
Now that the ground has thawed let’s go on an archaeological dig. What are some of the latest big local discoveries? What do historical artifacts teach us about our past?
