Silent Lotus Continue reading ‘Forbearance’
Monthly Archive for January, 2010
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Arline Bolvin
Speaking at a health care forum held at the University of Rhode Island’s Feinstein campus Thursday, December 10, Shawn Donahue, director of government relations (read lobbyist) for Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, said that the “fundamental core of the debate and the overarching question is whether it is right to profit from someone’s illness.” Donahue went on to ask these questions: “Is it right, for example, for Pfizer to profit from a drug that will help people avoid heart attacks, or a device manufacturer to charge $10,000 for a pacemaker? I think this is what’s really behind the debate,” he stated. Donahue went on to say that pre-existing conditions and technicalities should not be the cause for people to lose their coverage and that if reform is passed 150,000 lives could be saved over the next ten years because as it is now, of those who are uninsured 15,000 people die each year because of lack of health care”. Continue reading ‘Health Care Forum’
Tanisha Watkins
John Hope Settlement House, Program Coordinator
As the official kickoff for the 2010 tax season nears, Providence EITC/VITA sites gear up to assist more than 2,500 tax payers.
Enacted in 1975, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has become the nation’s largest and most important federal anti-poverty program benefiting working families. The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has become the nation’s largest and most important anti-poverty program, offering an average of $1,700 per year to each of 20 million low-income working families nation-wide. Continue reading ‘Volunteers in Tax Assistance (VITA) program available in Providence’
By Richard Jacobellis
Before 1974 I hated the world and everybody in it. I was a people-pleaser, until I learned to please myself — that was the key — to know that I was a sick person trying to get well, not a bad person trying to get good. I got into counseling in 1992 because there were underlying causes; I had underlying causes that drove me to obsess: to buy things, to make me happy — but they ultimately never did. They would make me happy only for a while, until I asked God, until I realized that God is the one that gives understanding, that if I asked Him to keep me sober, He is the only one that could do it — for me. And that has worked since 1975. Acceptance of reality is the key to my sobriety. Once I learned to accept myself, and my limitations, I could accept others and their faults. Continue reading ‘My Story’
Jose Alfonso Garcia Tineo Continue reading ‘Hay que volver hacer la tierra/ Let’s Give the Earth a Makeover’
Melissa Howard
Street Sights presents a Humanitarian Award to The Happy Basket Program located at the Cumberland Senior Center, the monastery, at 1464 Diamond Hill Road. The Happy Basket Program serves Thanksgiving and Christmas baskets to people in need. People receive a letter for the Happy Basket through welfare, churches, and school. Some can walk in and ask for a basket, they just need to have an I.D. and live in Cumberland. The Happy Basket Program served approximately 650 Thanksgiving and Christmas baskets this year. Continue reading ‘Humanitarian Award: The Happy Basket Program’