Urban programmes risk getting cut by Trump's Budget

Baltimore, Maryland

IN A dimly-lit church basement, James Gaymon III spent much of his Thursdays staring at practice questions as he prepared for his high school general equivalency diploma (GED) exam. He recently moved into an apartment two blocks from the underpass where he spent 20 years sleeping and often smoking crack.

Now Mr Gaymon is sober and taking classes at an adult learning centre run by Strong City Baltimore, a non-profit that operates with federal funds from the Community Development Block Grant programme - which President Donald Trump's budget for fiscal 2018 would eliminate.