
"We are serving more people today than we ever have, and it's just, instead of getting better - I had hoped by the time I retired, that we wouldn't need food banks."
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Written by LILY BOHLKE Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS
"We are serving more people today than we ever have, and it's just, instead of getting better - I had hoped by the time I retired, that we wouldn't need food banks."
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS
There are three major structural problems out of the control of impoverished individuals that best explain the rise of homelessness in Massachusetts: savage cuts to our state mental health system, an economy that creates large numbers of bad low-wage jobs, and the destruction of affordable housing.