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Availability Drives New England Opioid Overdoses
BOSTON – A new report claims it isn’t economic factors that have fueled high numbers of opioid overdoses in New England – but doctors who’ve been over-prescribing them. Looking into the impact of the opioid epidemic on the labor market, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston found overdose death rates were higher in every New…
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Tenants, activists protest unfair rent hike in Hyde Park
Bruce Green of the Stony Brook Tenants Union spoke at the rally against displacement on June 2 in Hyde Park. Photo by Valerie Li. Stony Brook Village residents rallied against their home’s management company for retaliatory rent increase, evictions, and unlivable housing conditions on June 2, at the property in Hyde Park. Two local activist…
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Angela Davis Speaks at Boston Public Library
Angela Davis entered Rabb Hall to a standing ovation on May 29. She was visiting the Boston Public Library (BPL) to give a lecture on the “Frameworks for Radical Feminism in the 21st Century” as part of the BPL’s Lowell Lecture Series. Davis smiled at the audience and said, “The feminism I want to…
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Massachusetts Senator Releases Report Detailing Trump Administration’s ‘Anti-Immigrant’ Agenda
Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey holds a copy of his “Under the Radar” report on Trump immigration policies at a press conference at the Chelsea Collaborative Center. Photo by Jordan Frias US Senator Ed Markey is trying to get his colleagues to push back on the Trump administration’s immigration policies with a new report authored by…
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New MOMMIES Act Aims to Implement ‘Maternal Justice’
The United States allocates more money per person than any other country in the world on health care. Yet somehow, the U.S. is the only developed nation with a persistently growing maternal mortality rate. Roughly 700 women die a year as a result of pregnancy related deaths, 60 percent of which are preventable, according to…
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Boston’s Homeless Women Struggle to Navigate Healthcare System
Last year, the City of Boston said the homeless population had gone down three percent. Despite the decline, homelessness in the city remains at just over six thousand—and most of them eventually will need medical care. Women on the street need specialized medical care. Boston provides an array of medical assistance to help them. Samantha…
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Help Spare Change News Help Others!
Happy Spring! Spring is a season of new beginnings and change. We want to start off by thanking you all for your gracious and generous donations from our past fall appeal. We sincerely appreciate your help and support. It is because of you that we are still alive after 27 years and still able to…
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IDs For the Homeless are Common Sense
“Having an ID card is instrumental to giving folks pathways out of poverty,” says Molly Schulman, Community Organizer and Legislative Advocate with the Massachusetts Coalition For the Homeless. She, along with Associate Director Kelly Turley, are at the Massachusetts State House every day advocating on behalf of the homeless on everything from increasing funding for…
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More students experiencing homelessness than reported by public schools during last school year
More students are experiencing homelessness in 17 states than reported by the U.S. Department of Education, a 2017 survey from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention found. The Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that 4.9 percent of students experienced homeless during the 2016-2017 academic year in 17 states, which is about 2.3 percent more…
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Education a Hot Topic in Mass. Senate Budget Debate
Education funding was at the heart of Senate budget talks on Tuesday in the Massachusetts State House. The Senate Ways and Means Committee is recommending a close to 43-billion-dollar fiscal 2020 budget that would boost spending by about three percent. Part of this proposed budget is a suggested 268-million-dollar increase in funds to K-12 public…
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