In the higher-priced coastal areas, more people are facing housing insecurity, turning to temporary assistance, shelter beds, motel stays, and friends’ couches to keep a roof overhead. Some fear the situation could get worse.
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Living Ramadan
In this episode of Mosaic, we break fast with the Kinjawi family throughout the holy month of Ramadan to understand how living as Muslims in the US has allowed them to become both more Muslim and more American.
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The vaccine Rhode Island residents don’t have to wait to get
R.I. health officials are urging residents to get their flu shots to head off more hospitalizations and deaths and limit strain on the state’s health care system during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Land of the Free, Part II
We pick up where we left off with the story of Pov Pech: he returns to Lowell after serving his sentence and tries out the straight and narrow life. But Pov’s past has already changed the course of his life and set him up on a path that, decades later, ends in deportation.
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Land of the Free, Part I
Pov Pech came to the US as a refugee and turned towards crime to solve his problems. He stole, fought, sold drugs, and even shot up a high school. Last summer, he was deported back to a country he barely knows, leaving his family and his American identity behind.
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In person and online, Rhode Island students return to school
It was not the start of school that many had hoped for, nor was it a return to normalcy after the abrupt shutdown of schools this spring. Instead, most public schools in Rhode Island reopened– at least partially– in an atmosphere of wariness and uncertainty.
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She ran the nursing home. Then she ran out of staff to care for the residents.
The Eastgate Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in East Providence was so short-handed that its top administrator, Anna Zambrano, 41, and five of other support staff took turns feeding, bathing and providing other care for residents. One of the residents was Zambrano’s father.
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Season 2 Premiere: Balancing Act
The coronavirus pandemic has been especially difficult for undocumented immigrants, like Mikayla’s parents. As a student at Brown University, Mikayla has spent the majority of 2020 trying to forge her own path through the Ivy League and a changing world all while dealing with the stress of her family back home.
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Three new teachers on the promise and fears of the upcoming school year
For new teachers, the first year is notoriously difficult. The COVID-19 pandemic has added new challenges and uncertainty. Three new teachers, beginning their careers during one of the most tumultuous years of American education, say they’re eager to get to work.
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PVDFest was cancelled this summer, but public artworks like ‘Three Sisters’ bring life to downtown Providence
For the past five summers, Providence has hosted PVD Fest, a multi-day street festival that fills the city with crowds watching performers from all over the world – musicians, dancers and even acrobats suspended in the air. All of that was cancelled this year.
