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Nursing home resident and caregiver COVID-19 deaths surpassed 1,000 this week
“Every day nursing home residents and frontline heroes are dying from COVID-19 yet the industry continues to obscenely claim they can’t afford the staffing and support needed to help contain the spread,” continued Adanjesus Marin, Coordinator of Raise the Bar on Resident Care.
Report: Essential workers in Rhode Island struggle to make ends meet, says EPI
“This year we wanted to show the realities that COVID has brought to light – that many of the workers who are essential to our economy aren’t paid enough to meet their own basic needs. We also wanted to highlight that while many workers struggle to keep up with their bills, Black and Latinx workers are faring far worse than White workers."
Raimondo's multi-hub bus plan violates principles in the Transit Master Plan her administration just approved
"I think transit advocates would have a really strong argument to make," said Grow Smart RI's John Flaherty. "That the multi-hub goes against principles that are outlined in the Transit Master Plan having to do with convenience and speed."
Food security, housing security and mental health for families: RI ranks near the bottom
"By measuring food security, the ability to make rent or mortgage payments, health insurance status, and mental health concerns, the [report] identified four pain points for children and families that require immediate action... States in the bottom 10 that were doing worse on three or all four categories were Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, Rhode Island, and Texas."
Rhode Island to stay the course on prison Covid outbreak
"...our focus is to support the Department of Corrections' leadership, help ensure that there isn't any increase in spread and make sure our inmates and staff remain protected..."
Mayor Elorza commits to universal basic income pilot program for Providence in 2021
"We believe that fundamentally, people are poor because they don't have money. So if we're serious in this country about addressing poverty, then let's address it in the most direct and effective way possible. Let's give them the means to direct their own future."
Senate LEOBoR Task Force votes on final recommendations
"...no one has managed to convince me why there is a need for a Law Enforcement Officer's Bill of Rights in Rhode Island when when 19 out of 50 states have some version of this, which means 31 states do not. There hasn't been any evidence presented to this task force to suggest that things are awry in those 31 states that do not have a LEOBoR."
Black Lives Matter RI calls on state leaders to deal with ACI covid outbreak
"They could send people who can go home - send them home, because clearly they can't keep them safe in these walls… The other ting is that they need to take care of the fact that they 're incarcerating people at such a high rate..."
As the pandemic rages inside, advocates, families and allies rally at the ACI
Presently, the number of cases among incarcerated individuals at the ACI, is surging past 570 with nearly 100% of those incarcerated in the Maximum Security building in particular, now COVID-19 positive...
OpEd: R.I. Parents/Educators for Safe Schools oppose a Raimondo cabinet appointment
"We do not believe that a public servant who is willing to dismiss and denigrate worried constituents, politicize science and public health, and overlook the dire consequences her actions and failures have had on the people she has sworn to serve is an appropriate pick for a cabinet position within the Biden administration."