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A cactus rests by the windowsill, perched above eight large plastic bins packed with most of Karen McDonald's belongings.  The plant, McDonald said, brings her peace as she moves through a revolving door of homes. It's a symbol of survival in the transient and often unforgiving world of navigating homelessness in the Philadelphia suburbs. In February, hope for a more permanent home came in a Housing Choice Voucher, what many consider the holy grail of subsidized housing. McDonald felt her days drifting through shelters, friends’ homes and cars would soon come to an end.  Yet, lik...

Deborah Simpson is waiting to learn if she is going to be homeless. For 13 years, the 69-year-old resident has lived at the same Bensalem mobile home park, but the death of her boyfriend three years ago left her struggling to pay the bills. Then came the COVID-19 pandemic, which buried her. She owes her landlord at least $2,000 rent and utilities, according to court records. Her only income is Social Security, which is a little more than $1,100 a month.  In March, the landlord filed paperwork to start the eviction process. But the magisterial court judge assigned to the case continued the...

NIOBRARA, Neb. (AP) — The state of Nebraska went through one of the worst flood seasons...

2. Make decisions amidst uncertainty “We are in the fourth industrial revolution, a time marked by the interconnection of physical, biological and digital worlds. As these worlds integrate, intelligent ecosystems form and give rise to ‘big bang disruptions,’ thus transforming entire systems, creating and destroying entire product lines, markets and ecosystems overnight,” said Jenai Marinkovic, vChief Technology and Security Officer with Tiro Security, and a member of the ISACA Emerging Trends Working Group.  “In the near-normal where disruptions such as the pandemic accelerated th...

× By Alex Brown, Stateline.org Share: Rows of conifers grow in a greenhouse at the Webster Forest Nursery, operated by the Washington Department of Natural Resources. Washington produces about 8 million seedlings a year for reforestation on state and private lands, but many other states have closed nurseries or cut production in recent years, leaving small forest owners without a crucial supply of trees. (Alex Brown/Stateline/The Pew Charitable Trusts/TNS) When wildfires ripped through Oregon last Labor Day, they burned huge swaths of forest, including 63,000 acres of sma...