Rebroadcast: They work full-time jobs. Why are they homeless?

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  Hey there, it's Sam Sanders.

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  The Pulitzer Prizes were announced this past week, honoring some of the best journalism and writing from the past year,

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  including work by several reporters we featured on this show.

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  One of this year's winners is journalist Brian Goldstone.

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  For his book, There Is No Place For Us, a deeply reported exploration of the lives of working homeless people in America

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  and the U.S. Policies that make stable housing so difficult to secure.

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  In Conversation host Shamita Basu interviewed him when the book was released last spring.

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  So we wanted to bring that conversation back today.

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  Congrats to Brian on the award.

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  I hope you enjoy listening.

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  This is In Conversation from Apple News.

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  I'm Shamita Basu.

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  Today, why so many working people are homeless in America.

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  A few years ago, Celeste Walker found herself in an impossible situation.

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  She was living in Atlanta with her three kids.

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  She was working a warehouse job, but had recently been diagnosed with breast

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  and ovarian cancer and was undergoing treatment.

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  On top of everything else, she had lost her housing and was desperate for help.

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  So she went to Gateway Center, a local organization that provides assistance to homeless families.

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  She got there before dawn and there was already a line going around the building,

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