Where 'Managers' Make Bagels
By David AbelGlobe Staff 8/28/2003The ad in the Sri Lankan newspaper promised "Free! Restaurant Training in the USA."Of thousands of ambitious hospitality students who responded, Dev Srilan and 14...
View ArticleThe Joy of Paying Taxes
By David AbelGlobe Staff4/15/2002 It may come as little surprise that in more than three decades as director of the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants, overseeing hundreds of...
View ArticleA Shelter Hoards Cash, Cuts Services
By David AbelGlobe Staff6/10/2002As the region's largest homeless shelter bemoans proposed state budget cuts, warning it may be forced to slash an array of vital services, it's sitting on unprecedented...
View ArticleCandidates Ignore Poverty
By David AbelGlobe Staff11/04/2002CAMPAIGN 2002 / CAMPAIGN ISSUESThey're calling it the campaign's "stealth issue."Rising poverty is not part of many stump speeches. There are few, if any, position...
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Section 8 Shortage
By David AbelGlobe Staff6/10/2003After years of turning people away because there weren't enough affordable apartments, the state has started turning them away because there are too many...
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Combating 'Overhousing'
A Two-Sided Solution for Near-Empty Triple-DeckersBy David AbelGlobe Staff5/19/2003 The seven children raised by Mary and Elbert Vines are all gone. There are cobwebs in the bedrooms where they slept,...
View ArticleMigrant Workers Face Hostility
By David AbelGlobe Staff9/23/2002 AGAWAM - With Puritan laws once banning the planting of seeds, the early arrival of frost spoiling autumn harvests, and developers steadily buying much of the land,...
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Janitors Strike in Boston
Janitors Describe a Limited Life; Benefits as Important as PayBy David AbelGlobe Staff09/05/2002This is Oscar Dominguez's life: The 43-year-old father of three shares an East Boston studio with a...
View ArticleReforming Welfare
Job Mandate Nears For Welfare RollsBy David AbelGlobe Staff5/20/2002 Like thousands of welfare recipients throughout the state, Jaime Morrow may look back in a few years and think how easy she has it...
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Welfare Dads
Ranks of Fathers on Welfare RiseBy David AbelGlobe Staff7/19/2002 DESPITE the chaos of caring for his two girls and a grandson, Mark Foster cuts a lonely figure.As a single father on welfare, who...
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Evicting the Mentally Ill
By David AbelGlobe Staff7/07/2003When a judge asked one man to name the US president, he responded: "Osama bin Laden." Another judge confronted a defendant so mentally disturbed he had chased neighbors...
View ArticleLure of the Reverse Mortgage
REVERSE MORTGAGES LURE MANY SENIORSBy David AbelGlobe Staff8/04/2003 BANGOR - Unwilling to move, but pressed by rising bills and weak retirement portfolios, senior citizens in downeast Maine are...
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The Invisible Man
Federal Figures on Unemployment Do Not Include The 'Discouraged'By David AbelGlobe Staff8/21/2003Nearly a year ago, Brian Lupaczyk lost his job after nine years of earning a six-figure salary. Last...
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Taking Advantage of Free Care
'I Would Really Like to be Able to Walk'Free Care for Needy Foreigners Clash With Reality of Struggling Health SystemBy David Abel and Alice DembnerGlobe Staff9/26/2002 Smiling shyly, the paraplegic...
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Island of Calm
Incomes low, contentment highBy David AbelGlobe Staff9/02/2002GOSNOLD - When not debating budget issues as one of this small town's three selectmen, Kris Lombard is stocking her general store, serving...
View ArticleHomes Without Toilets
IN BOSTON, 2,500 SAY THEY LACK PLUMBINGBy David AbelGlobe Staff7/08/2002The elderly Italian immigrants aren't eager to complain. For decades, they and at least a few other poor, non-English-speaking...
View ArticleSlashing Detox
BUDGET CUTS FORCE THOSE ADDICTED TO WAIT FOR SPACE, OR GO WITHOUTBy David AbelGlobe Staff4/28/2003When all else fails, they come to Ludy Young. They come confessing their crimes, they come and kneel...
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Cracking Down on Pawnshops
State Seeks to Bring Down Illegally High Interest RatesBy David AbelGlobe Staff5/01/2003FALL RIVER - The switchblade didn't sell, so the welfare recipient took off two gold rings her daughter had given...
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Hitchhiking at 97
Cash-Strapped Seniors Scrimp While Holding Valuable PropertyBy David AbelGlobe Staff8/03/2001 Arnold Stephens could sell his Back Bay home and stash a half-million dollars in the bank. Instead, the...
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Swindling Immigrants
By David AbelGlobe Staff7/05/2003After paying the "law office" of Price-Price & Associates $1,200, Jaime Cardona expected help navigating the bureaucratic path to citizenship. Instead, he says, the...
View ArticleYours, For a Price
By David AbelGlobe Staff2/17/2003No credit? No checks or savings? No cash for delivery?No problem at Rent-a-Center.If you're like Juanda Mwanza, and you want to furnish your home with anything from...
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Preying on the Poor
By David AbelGlobe Staff1/13/2003On a gritty block lined with timeworn storefronts, the big bright sign in the freshly scrubbed window looms like a beacon to the neighborhood's poor. In bold letters,...
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March of Gentrification
By David Abel | Globe Staff | January 20, 2008A block from the Pine Street Inn, near the 3-month-old yoga studio, the year-old Asian furniture boutique, and all the recently finished condo...
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