'There has been a systematic attack on the rights for these youth through the immigration system,' said Angela Snyder, supervising attorney at the Immigration Legal Assistance program at Ascentria in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Recipients of funding from the housing assistance program HomeBASE have filed lawsuits calling on the state to resume funding for a third year to help low-income families. But the Commonwealth says budget restraints are limiting resources.
The Healthy Incentives Program, known as HIP, provides food insecure households with money to buy produce from farmstands and farmers markets. HIP recipients can only buy from farmers and farmers markets that are enrolled in the program.
This Peabody Award–winning podcast dives into the cynicism that hangs over the topic of American infrastructure. No project embodies that cynicism quite like ‘The Big Dig.’