marcia biggs: for the "pbs newshour," i'm marcia biggs in caracas. ♪ judy: stay with us. on the "newshour," too young to retire but too old to find well-paying job. workforce.e more than half a millionom americans areess on any given night, but on the west coast, thewnroblem has g worse in recent years. as john yang explains, that is especially pronounced in california. john yang: judy, theal government says more than a quarter of america's homeless fe in california. while homelessnel in most states last year, in the golden state, it rose 16%. the issue was e sole topic of democratic governor'vin newsom'state of the state address. gov. gavin newsom: let's call it what it is. it's a disgrace that the richest state in the richestation, cceeding across so many sectors, is falling so f behind to properly house, heal, and humanely treat so many of its own people. the state of california can no longer treat homelessness and housing insecuty as someone' e's problem, buried below other priorities that are much sier to win or better suited for sound bites. it is our responsibility

with support from the pulitzer center, special correspondent marcia biggs went undercovero film this report. and a warning: this story contains disturbing images. >> reporter: this photograph was taken just five years ago. happier and healthier times. do you remember this day? but now, jose rodriguez is dying. two years ago, he was misdiagnosed with tuberculosis and only six months ago found out he was actually suffering from a different lung infection. his daughter paula conchila is a nurse but stopped working to take of her father. >> ( translated ): that's why i feel so angry because i've tried to help him but it's impossible. i don't have the supplies. >> reporter: jose is on a treatment with several different medications, including an antibiotic that costs around five dollars, the monthly minimum wage in venezuela. >> ( translated ): if we spend money on the medicine, then we don't have any money for his supplies. plus, with the cost of transportation when i have to take him to the doctor. we don't have money to pay for all this. we have different jobs but it's not enough. this

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withupport from the pulitzer center, special correspondent marcia biggs reports on what it means to behild in venezuela today. >> reporter: six-year-old winston should be in sool. instead, he and his older brother jose are helping their father with what is now daily work, sifting through the trasht s garbage dump in maracaibo, a major city in western venezuela. jose gutierrez says he used to sell coffee and cigarettes on the street, but because of hyper inflation-- projected this year to be as high as 500,000%-- he kept losing money. so nowhe spends his days r arching for plastic to sell so he can buy food s family. >> ( translated ): before, people could work and buy rice and flour with the salary. there was cash in the street, there was ney to be made. w, it's the opposite-- there's no money to make on the street. >> repter: many neighborhoods in venezuela have always been poor, but people here say they got by with help from the government. in the last coulple years, they say, things have changed. x gutierrez says the free food from the government only comes once a month, and only la

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with support from the pulitzerer cespecial correspondent marcia biggs reports. >> reporter: this is you when you were little! >> si, soy yo. >> reporter: 53-year-old nelly larco remembers a veneof an earlier time, one filled with birthday parties, confirmationst and chs presents. >> wow! >> reporter: it was a land of opportunity for an immigrant like her.en she moved touela from her native ecuador when she was still a teenager, and worked as a housekeeper. >> t translated ): i ss with huge pride, because i came here working and that's how i earned way to improve myself, and i'm so attached to and so thankful to venezuela. >> reporter: this country gave her a life, and a family: nelly's three daughts were able to go to school, and her eldest, marielena, became lawyer and a professor. but for years, they've been struggling to get by, living one of the many slums surrounding the sprawlg capital of cacas. is there water? hay agua? >> reporter: there's never enough water, enough propane for cooking, enough food to t. for more than two decades, nelly has watched her adopted country slip away,