Payday Loans
The General Assembly continues to be complicit in the evil of payday loans
Powerful lobbyists have a choke hold on the General Assembly leadership, which is only too happy to enable the continued soaking of the most vulnerable …
Poverty
Climate Change
Peter Nightingale: Warped priorities mark the Department of Energy’s FY 2020 budget
In a March 11 press release highlighting its FY 2020 budget, the Department of Energy (DOE) claims that it will fulfill its obligation to clean …
Poverty
The 11th Annual Fighting Poverty with Faith Vigil
As it has for every year for over a decade, the 11th Annual Fighting Poverty with Faith Vigil, organized by the the Rhode Island Interfaith …
Hunger
Not good: Rhode Island Food bank releases report on hunger in Rhode Island
The Rhode Island Community Food Bank has released their 2018 Status Report on Hunger in Rhode Island. Among the reports findings: Hunger is more prevalent …
Poverty
Reverend Traci Blackmon electrifies the 10th Annual Interfaith Poverty Conference
The Rhode Island Interfaith Coalition to Reduce Poverty held their 10th Interfaith Poverty Conference at Rhode Island College Wednesday morning, featuring Reverend Traci Blackmon as …
Immigration
Representative Marcia Ranglin-Vassell: Faith, love and strong progressive legislation for a better world
“I just want to begin by saying Donald Trump is a racist, he’s a fraud, he’s a bigot and he’s a misogynist,” said Rhode Island …
Poverty
Celebrating the lottery, and football, and all that they entail
At a press conference held yesterday to announce new Patriots themed scratch tickets, Governor Gina Raimondo, New England Patriots President Jonathan Kraft and Rhode Island …
Poverty
10th Annual Fighting Poverty with Faith Vigil unveils its 2018 legislative agenda
“Standing here surrounded by more than 60 clergy persons reminds me that faith leaders participated in the ratification of the United States Constitution and the …