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David Greene talks with Michael Wilson of Maryland Hunger Solutions about how the partial government shutdown has affected SNAP benefit recipients, as well as the retailers who sell food to them.

According to a Marshall Project report, inflation has hit America's incarcerated population harder than it has those on the outside. Alex Arriaga, who wrote the report, talks about what she found.

NPR's Noel King speaks with Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar about this morning's mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, which is part of his district.

Advocates for the homeless worry that Robert Marbut, a consultant who has been hired by many cities, will roll back the successes of arranging housing for the homeless.

In Tacloban, a city of more than 220,000 people, some aid trucks are being looted as they arrive. Desperate for food, water and other essentials, many people are taking matters into their own hands.

As many as a half-million undocumented immigrants, including more and more children, make dangerous 1,450-mile trips atop this network of freight trains each year.

Economic downturns can lead to higher mortality rates. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Anne Case, an economist at Princeton University, about the public health costs of the economic shutdown.

The U.S. job market is starting to show signs of recovery. Though unemployment has been falling, around 4 million people had been unemployed for over six months in February.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Alice Fontier, managing director of the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, about the protest by inmates at Rikers Island Correctional Facility in New York City.

Many people traded in slacks for sweatpants during the worst of the pandemic and are now figuring out what to wear back to the office. Here's what that looks like, from Wall Street to Capitol Hill.