Please take a moment to review the areas of the budget that impact your clients/consumers and advise us as to any other line items in jeopardy that we should be monitoring by emailing Bill Yelenak.This is the first of several … [Read more...]
Building a stronger human service system in Massachusetts
2011-2012 Human Services Legislative AgendaPrior to the 2011-12 legislative session, the Providers' Council surveyed its statewide membership of human services providers about the challenges and opportunities that can be addressed to … [Read more...]
WANNA make a for real “CHRISTMAS ” all year long?
If not now, when? If not you, then who? And I know these folks, and this group - 100% of any donations go to the kids; no paid staff, no professional fundraising, no political donations - 100% goes to the kids. Deb … [Read more...]
End Poverty in California
End Poverty in California [EPIC] was the platform of Upton Sinclair's campaign for the Governorship of California in 1934. Sinclair had won the nomination of the Democratic Party although he had been a member of the Socialist Party … [Read more...]
Ford Hall Forum: “AIDS, Social Justice and the Politics of Transformation” (9/30/10)
This event is presented in collaboration with the Old South Meeting House, a museum and National Historic Landmark dedicated to the free exchange of ideas, as part of the Partners in Dialogue series. … [Read more...]
Welfare benefits cashed in Casinos
Welfare benefits cashed in Casinos One more reason I am glad THIS has not come HERE. Magical thinking: THIS time I will win. More magical thinking: My money doesn't last through the month and already, without a food pantry … [Read more...]
Stop talking about “taxes” start talking about fundamental fairness – w poll
Stop framing the discussion as "raising taxes". Start talking about fundamental fairness and the American Dream being destroyed by greedy banksters and a rapacious elite. Go to What will kill the American Dream, in hard numbers It is not … [Read more...]
One in ten Americans on food stamps
Shall we assume that it's because so many people are getting the short end of the economic stick, or are we going to argue that the nanny state is coddling too many lazy slackers? … [Read more...]
Democratic Party Platform Online Forum: Economic Justice & Poverty
Schedule & Topics for Future Forums: Housing 3/10 Environment 3/13 Public Safety & Criminal Justice 3/18 Misc - What Are We Missing? 3/23 … [Read more...]
Why not just shoot fish in a barrel, or tied up animals? This is shameful.
The only words I have for this is "more mean-spirited cuts, more balancing the budget on the backs of the powerless who are already crawling". Here is a quote that really says it all: By reducing those eligible for shelter, Kehoe said the … [Read more...]