Proposed Cuts to General Assistance – Maine

General assistance cuts proposed by LePage affect most needy, critics say, By Eric Russell, March 22, 2012, Bangor Daily News: “Roberta Duncan was three weeks shy of her 86th birthday when she was laid to rest last December in an unmarked grave in the ‘paupers section’ of Bangor’s Mount Hope Cemetery. Bangor Area Homeless Shelter director Dennis Marble was one of only six people present for her burial. The others were: two shelter staff members, a Franciscan Friar, an outreach worker and an employee of a local funeral home. Duncan had no family locally but was well-known in the Bangor community – at least to people like Marble. In most ways, she was a lot like many of the people who visit the homeless shelter on a given day looking for a meal or a bed…”