On any given night 62,000 of our nation’s veterans sleep on the streets. According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development they make up nearly 13% of the American homeless adult population. Over the course of a year, approximately twice as many experience homelessness at one time or another. In 2012 the number [...]
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America’s Homeless Veteransphotographer |
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US Housing Crisis West 2012photographer |
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GROUND ZERO for the housing crisis in the western United States is in central California, Phoenix, Arizona, and Las Vegas, Nevada. These three places, more than anywhere else in the country, have felt the backlash of the past decade’s extensive predatory lending and mortgage fraud. Today the housing crisis in the Western states has become [...] |
FIGHTING BACK Cleveland’s Inner City Boxingphotographer |
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In the heart of inner city Cleveland, Coach Fred Wilson has dedicated himself to turning drug dealers and users into boxers, hoping to give them a positive outlook on life. |
Facing Change: Documenting America 2011photographer |
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This week we present our final update for 2011, a suite of diverse images taken along our journeys this year on the American road. We feel that these photographs speak to the heart of this moment in our country. |
Occupy Wall Street Eviction 2011photographer |
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Over the last two months, Occupy Wall Street spread across the nation as each new economic statistic grimly confirms the disparity between rich and poor continuing to grow while unemployment remains high and stagnant. The protesters were initially mocked and denigrated, but public outcry galvanized by pepper spray and mass arrest police tactics added to the persistence and popularity of the movement. The response from local governments has varied from city to city. In New York it was marked by heavy-handedness tempered with reluctant tolerance. |
Occupy Wall Street – the Growing Movement 2011photographer |
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As Occupy Wall Street” grows daily both nationally and internationally authorities’ patience with the protests is wearing thin. The New York movement narrowly avoid a police stand off on Friday morning but this was not the case in Denver. The hard question is what next? |
Occupy Wall Street 2011photographer |
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Occupy Wall Street is an ongoing series of demonstrations in New York City based in Zuccotti Park, formerly “Liberty Plaza Park”. The protest was originally called for by the Canadian activist group Adbusters; it took inspiration from the Arab Spring movement (particularly the Tahrir Square protests in Cairo, which initiated the 2011 Egyptian Revolution) and from the Spanish Indignants. |
10th Anniversary of September 11, 2001 attacks on Americaphotographer |
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Ten years on, Americans will gather today where the World Trade Center soared, where the Pentagon stands as a fortress once breached, where United Airlines Flight 93 knifed into the earth. |
Turmoil on Wall Street August 2011photographer |
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Renewed turmoil battered Asia and Europe, and Wall Street headed for new losses, in the face of rising concern over debt problems and the economy. |
Fourth of July by FCDA photographersphotographer |
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n 1775, people in New England began fighting the British for their independence. On July 2, 1776, the Congress secretly voted for independence from Great Britain. The Declaration of Independence was first published two days later on July 4, 1776. |
Memorial Day 2011photographer |
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Memorial Day Weekend from Coney Island and Prospect Park, Brooklyn to the thousands of Rolling Thunder Bikers packing the National Mall Facing Change photographers Lucian Perkins and Anthony Suau document the annual holiday. |
Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear 2010photographer |
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Comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert entertained a huge crowd at the “Rally to Restore Sanity” and “Keep Fear Alive” to poking fun at the nation’s ill-tempered politics, fear-mongers and doomsayers. |
Detroit – Food Bank 2010photographer |
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Once known as the world’s automotive center, Detroit was the home of 1.85 million people in the 1950s. Its population is now 951,000 and there are an estimated 80,000 abandoned buildings within the city. |
September 11 and 12, 2010photographer |
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The ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, in Lower Manhattan. |
