they aid people who’ve fallen through the social safety net. Recently, PF&R launched a program that ... I think sometimes people forget that we are and have been a big part of that safety net for people who are ...
11 Mar 2014 - Jake Thomas
low-income service jobs to get by, Johnston says. “The safety net just isn’t here,” Johnston says of his ... Multnomah County’s, safety net services, including aging and disability programs, domestic violence ... he says of the cuts to Home Forward. “It’s really ripping holes into the social safety net.” He says ...
6 May 2013 - Street Roots Staff
our social safety net is most vulnerable, if anywhere? Joe: That’s a tough question. I’d like to come ... said in the film that it’s cheaper by far to help people before they completely fall through the safety ... net and become homeless. Our experience has been that the vast majority of people we talked to and ...
14 Mar 2013 - Jake Thomas
remember when exactly) when he qualified for Supplemental Security Income, a federal safety net program ... The federal government provides two safety net programs that provide cash payments to individuals who ...
24 Mar 2014 - Jake Thomas
the safety net, fighting for better jobs, fighting for fair immigration, fighting for schools where ...
3 Jun 2013 - Jake Thomas
Fourth: The safety on the MAX line is something I’ve been working on for the past year and a half with ... a bunch of people to try and find low-cost alternatives to improve safety on the MAX line. Crime on TriMet ... renters need jobs. Third, if, for instance, we enter into a no-net loss-housing, working hard so that ...
5 Jan 2012 - Street Roots
is zoned residential for commercial and office spaces, and, as you say, we have a no net loss of ... But then realizing that public safety and social services interact in a big way. We in the city have ...
7 Nov 2011 - Street Roots