The folks at the bottom are always the first to feel the pinch, when it comes.

Clients of the agency I work at come through our doors every day requesting assistance with basic necessities like food, clothing, shelter and medications. As the year has progressed and New York State has chosen to repeatedly victimize its most vulnerable citizens, it has become more difficult to help people meet these needs. I have visited food banks with empty shelves, been told clients were ineligible for help when I knew they were

At the federal level Social Security routinely denies people eligible for benefits in the hopes that they will not reapply.

Once again, our policy in practice serves to punish most harshly children and the elderly. Perhaps, it is time to repeal the child labor laws and begin allowing them to work 12 hour days again.

Some days I am just weary from the strain of witnessing the suffering that goes on around me.

people ask for so little