Sucked into the Tunnels Beneath Las Vegas

There are some 14,000 people living on the streets of Las Vegas, and Nevada ranks second in the nation in homeless population per capita.

And yet it's easy to spend a whole weekend on the Las Vegas Strip without spotting a sign of a crisis. Still, seeing evidence is a matter of knowing — or perhaps choosing — where to look.

Sucked into the Tunnels Beneath Las Vegas won the Best News Feature Award in the 2010 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. The story was produced in 2008 by Adam Burke and edited by Jacob Conrad for NPR's Day to Day.