NewsPronto

 
Men's Weekly

.

USA Conversation

The Conversation USA

The Conversation USA

Why turning homelessness into a crime is cruel and costly

  • Written by Joseph W. Mead, Assistant Professor, Cleveland State University

Increasingly, local laws punish Americans who are homeless.

By severely restricting or even barring the ability to engage in necessary, life-sustaining activities in public, like sitting, standing, sleeping or asking for help, even when there’s no reasonable alternative, these laws are essentially persecuting homeless men, women and children.

A...

Read more: Why turning homelessness into a crime is cruel and costly

More Articles ...

  1. A way around opioids: Target the type of pain for better pain relief
  2. Extreme stress during childhood can hurt social learning for years to come
  3. Trump and Sessions can end immigrant family separations without Congress' help
  4. Forced migration from Central America: 5 essential reads
  5. Yoga isn't timeless: it's changing to meet contemporary needs
  6. How setting a schedule can make you less productive
  7. How to heal African-Americans' traumatic history
  8. Juneteenth: Freedom's promise is still denied to thousands of blacks unable to make bail
  9. The public health benefits of adding offshore wind to the grid
  10. 30 years ago global warming became front-page news – and both Republicans and Democrats took it seriously
  11. More mental health care alone will not stop gun violence
  12. What it means to be a Christian in America today
  13. Schools must equip students to navigate alt-right websites that push fake news
  14. Opiate addiction and the history of pain and race in the US
  15. Colombia elects a conservative who promises to 'correct' its peace accord
  16. Nicaraguans try to topple a dictator — again
  17. The Bible's message on separating immigrant children from parents is a lot different from what Jeff Sessions thinks
  18. Astronaut Sally K. Ride's legacy – encouraging young women to embrace science and engineering
  19. What 40 years of 'Space Invaders' says about the 1970s – and today
  20. Why a minor change to how EPA makes rules could radically reduce environmental protection
  21. Drug shortages pose a public health crisis in the US
  22. Why you should eat popcorn with chopsticks – and other psychological tricks to make life more enjoyable
  23. As Venezuela's public health system collapses, mosquito-borne viruses re-emerge
  24. What is the summer solstice? An astronomer explains
  25. US communities can suffer long-term consequences after immigration raids
  26. Yemen: Understanding the conflict
  27. One likely winner of the World Cup? Putin
  28. Why New York state is suing the Trumps: 5 questions answered
  29. How can a baby have 3 parents?
  30. Puerto Ricans don't trust official information on Hurricane Maria
  31. Why domestic abuse and anti-gay violence qualify as persecution in asylum law
  32. How Native American food is tied to important sacred stories
  33. How recycling more steel and aluminum could slash imports without a trade war
  34. A Father's Day reminder from science: Your kids aren't really growing up quickly
  35. Mexico seeks to become 'country of refuge' as US cracks down on migrants
  36. El nuevo aeropuerto de la Ciudad de México es un desastre ambiental que podría ser un gran parque natural
  37. To avoid humans, more wildlife now work the night shift
  38. Fathers forgotten when it comes to services to help them be good parents, new study finds
  39. Why black women's experiences of #MeToo are different
  40. Suicide nation: What's behind the need to numb and to seek a final escape?
  41. Lessons on political polarization from Lincoln's 'House Divided' speech, 160 years later
  42. Four campus free speech problems solved
  43. Digital mental health drug raises troubling questions
  44. New European rules may give US internet users true privacy choices for the first time
  45. Why there are so many unsheltered homeless people on the West Coast
  46. El colapso económico de Venezuela tiene una clara explicación
  47. Short-term changes in Antarctica's ice shelves are key to predicting their long-term fate
  48. On Germany's national soccer stage, why have East Germans gone missing?
  49. En Venezuela puede que no haya un final feliz
  50. Furia en Argentina despues del juicio que da indulto a un criminal de la Guerra Sucia