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Emergency shelter building housing people experiencing homelessness in Central Oregon, showing shelter facilities and community members

The Numbers Look Better. The System Doesn't: How Crook County's Homelessness Drop Masks a Deeper Crisis

Central Oregon recorded a nearly 20% drop in homelessness — 402 fewer people without stable housing. In Crook County, Prineville went from 367 to 214. But the PIT count's one-night snapshot masks a fragile system running on temporary funding, political gridlock, and a working class one paycheck from crisis. Progress that depends on emergency funding is not progress — it is a pause.

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June 20, 2026

A malnourished child crouches against a wall, eating scraps of food off the ground.

10 Facts You Need to Know About Poverty

Ten hard-to-ignore facts about global poverty, U.S. homelessness, and wealth inequality — from starvation statistics to what Americans spend on their pets versus what it would cost to end world hunger.

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December 16, 2015

Anonymous activists, one wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, hand out plates of hot food to homeless residents at folding tables set up on a Cincinnati street during an OpSafeWinter event.

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Anonymous Confirms Itself as This Generation's Robin Hood

Anonymous delivers its largest response yet to #OpSafeWinter, feeding the homeless in Cincinnati as part of a global humanitarian campaign that goes by many names — and building the reputation that makes it this generation’s Robin Hood.

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December 5, 2015