SYSK Selects: How Homelessness Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

osh and Chuck take a look at homelessness in the United States, discussing everything from the factors that lead to homelessness to what you can do to help alleviate the situation.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.0	Hey everyone, Chuck here and welcome to the Saturday stuff you should know select episode.
0:36.2	I picked this one out this week.
0:37.4	It's, uh, well, it's our famous homelessness episode.
0:41.2	And for those of you who don't know, we recorded this and released it around Christmas time
0:45.8	December 23rd, 2010.
0:47.9	We thought it would give everyone the warm fuzzies and make people want to go help those
0:51.9	in need.
0:52.9	But no, actually it did do that for some of you, but we actually got a lot of flack over
0:56.7	this one.
0:58.4	And very disappointingly a lot of people wrote in and said, you know what, people deserve
1:03.2	to be homeless.
1:04.2	They put themselves there.
1:05.2	I am not supposed to help them if they can't help themselves screw it.
1:10.6	And that was really disappointing to hear, but we stand by the show.
1:13.2	I think it's a good one.
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