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:
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…
Welcome to the Radio Boston live webchat. We’ll run a chatroom like this every week while the show is live and on the air, Fridays from 1-2pm Eastern Time. Log on and listen in to our live stream: www.wbur.org/listen. Click on this blogpost to join the online conversation…
We hope this chat room becomes a lively forum for bold, brainy conversation about life in Massachusetts.
Today, are pilot schools the solution to pressures faced by Massachusetts public schools?
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It’s one of the most popular video games in America. It’s brought back ripped jeans and rattails. It’s unleashed your inner rockstar. It’s Guitar Hero. And it was created by Harmonix Music Systems, a Cambridge, Massachusetts based design company.
Radio Boston visited a Guitar Hero tournament at the Alchemist Lounge in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. We brought back this revealing look at… Guitar Hero: Behind the Amp.
