Pa. to end program that ‘saved my life,’ man says, Associated Press, June 25, 2012, Patriot-News: “Jake Fleming had nothing: He would wash up in the bathroom of a fast-food joint and, as he tells it, didn’t have 99 cents to buy a hamburger. Determined to leave behind 30 years of alcohol and drug addiction, he entered detox for eight days in February 2008 and then lived in a recovery house while he sought daily addiction treatment for nine months. Pennsylvania’s Depression-era cash assistance program that he credits with paying his way back into the land of the living is now on Gov. Tom Corbett’s chopping block, while Republican-controlled Harrisburg is poised to shift the cash instead toward tax cuts for businesses and a business tax credit that helps subsidize private school scholarships…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty