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On January 24, 2018, Nobel Prize–winning economist Angus Deaton published an op-ed in The New York Times entitled “The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem.” According to Deaton, 5.3 million Americans are living on less than $4.00 per day and “are as destitute as the world’s poorest people.… [Their] suffering, through material poverty and poor health, is as bad [as] or worse than that of the people in Africa or in Asia.”

The 108th Legislature presents a new adventure for me after being elected Chair of the Health and Human Services Committee. Previously, I was chairman for the Business and Labor Committee

The Obama administration has quietly issued new bureaucratic rules that overturned the popular welfare reform law of 1996. This illegal move completely undoes years of progress that helped millions of Americans.

BOSTON — Of the more than 7,000 bills lawmakers filed in the last month, anti-poverty advocates are pushing to ensure increases in direct cash assistance to low-income families is one of the few hundred that will cross the finish line this...

The 108th Legislature presents a new adventure for me after being elected Chair of the Health and Human Services Committee. Previously, I was chairman for the Business and Labor Committee