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West Warwick asked to reconsider anti-panhandling signs resolution by homeless advocacy groups
Three advocacy groups for the homeless - House of Hope CDC, Rhode Island Homeless Advocacy Project, and Help the Homeless - and the ACLU of Rhode Island emailed a letter to the West Warwick Town Council on Monday. The letter expresses co...
Humanitarian crisis in Yemen
By all accounts, United States weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been the primary cause of the worsening conditions in Yemen, where the United States is fueling American built planes sold to the Saudis that...
Report: Work-hours test proposals are punitive and harmful to working people
“Heavy-handed and punitive work tests for SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) and Medicaid will do little to nothing to boost employment for low-wage workers,” said Economic Policy Institute (EPI) Research Director Josh Bive...
Food & Water Watch: Rhode Island counts filthy energy as clean, renewable power
A new report from Food & Water Watch demonstrates how Rhode Island considers energy sources such as waste methane burning and wood burning as “renewable,” and it includes the processes in its Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) clean ener...
Dominion lawyer says $150,000 tax stabilization reduction is actually an increase
The Providence City Council Finance Committee met Monday evening to hear testimony of the alteration of a tax stabilization agreement between the City of Providence and Dominion, the energy company that owns the Manchester Street Power S...
Report: Manchester Street Power Station for sale by owner
Hot on the heels of the revelation that the Providence City Council is seeking to give Dominion Energy Inc a $150,000 tax break comes a Bloomberg News report that Dominion is planning to sell the Manchester Street Power Station, and one...
A new Gilded Age in Rhode Island
The top 1 percent in Rhode Island earn 18.2 times more than the bottom 99 percent and have seen dramatic increase in their share of income growth in recent decades compared to earlier periods In The New Gilded Age: Income Inequality in t...
The Providence City Council wants to give Manchester Street Power Station a $150,000 tax break
The Providence City Council Finance Committee is set to hold a public hearing on Monday, July 23 at 5pm to discuss an ordinance establishing a new tax exemption and stabilization (TSA) plan for the Manchester Street Power Station. The Ma...
Gabriela Domenzain leaving Latino Policy Institute
[From a press release] Gabriela Domenzain is leaving her position as director of the Latino Policy Institute at Roger Williams University to pursue her passion for national-level work involving human rights and journalism. Domenzain beca...
Rally outside ACI to end all family separation
Around 400 people attended a rally in Cranston against the separation of families Saturday afternoon, held in coordination with hundreds of rallies across the United States. The rally outside the Adult Correctional Institutions broadened...