A small town’s American Dream is at risk. What happens when its biggest employer shuts down?

Hundreds of families may be forced to pack up and leave the town of 11,000, heading east to Omaha or Iowa, or south to the meatpacking towns of Kansas or beyond, causing spinoff layoffs in Lexington’s ...

In Port Orchard, a new shelter shows a model that gets people housed

Now, a renovated facility nearing its one-year anniversary in Port Orchard has become a large part of the long-term strategy ...

An American Dream at risk: What happens to a small Nebraska town when 3,200 workers lose their jobs

On a frigid day after Mass at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in rural Nebraska, worshippers shuffled into the basement and sat on folding chairs, their faces ...