L.A. Adopts New ‘War Room’ Strategy to Get Homeless Into Housing

Through the new process, officials also discovered $30 million of a $107 million grant from HUD to Los Angeles in 2017 had gone unspent within a calendar-year deadline, LAHSA said.

In its 2019 count, the authority reported that there were close to 60,000 homeless people living in LA County, with more than 36,000 of them in the city. All but about 25% live on the streets.

‘Mr. Bob,’ 88-year-old crossing guard, saves two children’s lives before sacrificing his own

As sea levels rise, How will Europe survive? Venice fights to stay above the waterline.

“When the palazzos on the Grand Canal were built around the 16th century, the main sea level was below the first step,” Giovanni Cecconi, the president of the Venice Resilience Lab, tells NBC News.

“Nowadays, the water is about 3 feet over it. Divide that by 500 years, and you’ll get an average sea rise of up to half a feet per century.”

Corona virus. How Corona virus started.

Coronavirus created in a lab.
Injected into test animal.
Test animal dies and is discarded and sold as food. Epidemic begins.
COVID-19 is a new disease, caused by a novel (or new) coronavirus that has not previously been seen in humans
Coronavirus Cases:
80,152

Deaths:
2,701

Recovered:
27,688

Tax the Rich: Pope Francis Calls for Global Wealth Redistribution

Tax cuts for the wealthy constitute a “structure of sin,” Pope Francis said Wednesday in a passionate address calling for international wealth redistribution

FY 2019 budget created a $1.09 trillion deficit.The deficit is 1% greater than last year.

The U.S. federal budget deficit for the fiscal year 2020 is $1.10 trillion.
FY 2020 covers October 1, 2019, through September 30, 2020. The deficit occurs because the U.S. government spending of $4.75 trillion is higher than its revenue of $3.65 trillion.


The deficit is 1% greater than last year. The FY 2019 budget created a $1.09 trillion deficit. Spending of $4.53 trillion was more than the estimated $3.44 trillion in revenue, according to Table S-4 of the FY 2020 budget.1




Difference Between the Deficit and Debt

Scientists alarmed to discover warm water at "vital point" beneath Antarctica's "doomsday glacier"

The collapse of the 74,000-square-mile Thwaites — which some scientists see as the most vulnerable and significant glacier in the world when it comes to sea-level-rise — could release a mass of water roughly the size of Florida or Great Britain


 Scientists continue to warn that the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet could collapse within the next 100 years, leading to a sea-level rise of nearly 10 feet and flooding coastlines around the world.