Even poverty has a learning curve.
Executives with four community action programs urged U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H., to relieve applicants of rigid paper documentation requirements and to deliver more discretionary money in the next COVID-19 relief package.
Betsey Andrew Parker, executive director of the Strafford County Community Action Parnership, said thereâs plenty of anxiety out there about what will be in place in 2021 when moratoriums on rental evictions and mortgage foreclosures are set to expire.
âThe underemployed people we are seeing is very significant,â Parker said. âPeople are really actually ruining their credit because they are trying to keep themselves afloat during this time. They are trying to keep themselves in the house. What happens past Jan. 1 really remains to be seen.â
Reps. Jim McGovern, Ayanna Pressley, Sen. Ed Markey press USDA over reports of food box shortages
Updated Dec 14, 2020;
Posted Dec 14, 2020
The first USDA Farmers to Families Food Box distribution took place Tuesday (June 30) at Lakewood High School.
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Unexpected shortages of food boxes and reduced service from a new U.S. Department of Agriculture contractor have left several Massachusetts food banks and schools scrambling to buy agricultural goods to adequately serve families, according to lawmakers.
Massachusetts lawmakers on Monday wrote to USDA to request a meeting after schools and food banks participating in the Farmers to Families Food Box Program reported that the Northeast region’s new contractor, New York-based Whitsons Culinary Group, could not service all the facilities that received food in prior rounds of the program.
Great Christmas Giveaway a blessing for Seacoast families in need
PORTSMOUTH – Wearing a mask and rubber gloves as she picked through potential Christmas gifts for her six children, Alli Morris said, I m so beyond broke it s not even funny.
One of her sons loves anything Pokemon. For another, she chose a small Nerf gun. For one of her daughters, a frilly pink pillow.
The toys filling three trash bags that Morris ultimately left with were free – as are all items at the Great Christmas Giveaway, run by Portsmouth-based nonprofit Operation Blessing. It s an annual event where low-income families can shop for their children at no cost inside the Greenleaf Recreation Center, adorned to look like Santa Claus workshop.