The ABCD Dorchester Neighborhood Service Center provides these at-risk families with a host of programs that help meet basic needs and offer stepping-stones out of poverty: fuel assistance, summer jobs, Mass Health applications, holiday toy distribution, Earned Income Tax Credit assistance, Food Stamp applications, holiday meal services and more. And communities across America would experience the same devastating eradication of vital programs and services.
These ill-conceived cuts would place the most vulnerable in society — children, families, seniors — at terrible risk. They would dismantle a national network of community-based, antipoverty programs that give people concrete services, real opportunities and all-important hope for the future.
To bring the budget into balance and grow the economy at a time when poverty is rising due to the harsh recession that continues to haunt low-income communities, the administration would be far better off increasing their investment in these programs, rather than cutting them. For a relatively small federal outlay, CSBG-funded programs pay off many times over as they get people working and paying taxes, prevent expensive emergency shelter placements and keep low-income community residents off the unemployment and welfare rolls, at huge savings to taxpayers.
Please help us keep these programs and services and opportunities that so many people in need depend upon every day. You can make a difference by writing, e-mailing or tweeting the Obama administration. E-mail president whitehouse. Post a comment at www. We need your help to save community action!
John J. ABCD , the Boston-area community action and antipoverty agency. Download this week's Reporter print issue or subscribe today to "Dorchester's Hometown Weekly Newspaper! Skip to main content. User menu About us Advertising Print issue.
Search form Search. By John J. Kreucher said the funds are often used as seed money to start projects such as Partnership Park and to help save the homes of people facing foreclosure. Such a cut would likely mean staff layoffs, she said. Her agency serves Jackson, Lenawee and Hillsdale counties. Community Development Block Grant funding, also on the chopping block, can be used for a number of things, including helping communities hit hard by the foreclosures crisis and helping people purchase homes.
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