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In this newsletter: PublicSource journalists spent months getting to know the community that developed around the Smithfield shelter Downtown, monitoring efforts to relocate its guests and chronicling its final weeks.

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Smithfield homeless shelter in downtown Pittsburgh exposed frayed safety net and tested county compassion

Read the stories of Dee, Sam and others who found respite in and around the now-closed Smithfield shelter Downtown.

“It is an ecosystem where people are supporting, loving, hugging one another in a system where no one else is doing that for them,” one advocate said.

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Isabelle Cajka, a local mother and librarian, says it's time to make noise on the issue of child care — especially as the country is looking at a Sept. 30 deadline, when an estimated 3.2 million U.S children could lose access to child care.
There's consensus among some area doctors that everyone should get at least one bivalent COVID booster shot to help prevent a fall surge.

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At least fourteen states have sought to weaken child labor regulations in the past two years

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