Kendall Worth: How a bus pass improves life for people living in the middle of nowhere
Kendall Worth catches up with a young woman who lives in Beaver Bank and finds out how the bus pass has improved her life.
Kendall Worth: 100 percent EI clawbacks are 100 percent wrong
Kendall Worth writes about questions Dartmouth North MLA Susan Leblanc raised about EI clawbacks for people on Income Assistance. It’s a topic dear to Kendall’s heart as he knows several people who experienced this.
Kendall Worth: Not rich enough? Getting a ride home after day surgery
Community Services will pay for the cab for a person who is getting released from day surgery if the person cannot take the bus home. But finding someone to accompany you home who the hospital approves of is sometimes difficult, Kendall Worth reports.
Kendall Worth: Shopping for Thanksgiving dinner
Kendall accompanies four friends who go shopping for Thanksgiving dinner. “I guess you can say that this story, along with my recent Thanksgiving story, show the amazing efforts people living in poverty sometimes make to keep themselves out of social isolation,” Kendall writes.
Kendall Worth: What people tell me about being grateful despite their poverty and social isolation
Poverty advocate Kendall Worth asks his friends and acquaintances about being grateful despite all the problems poverty brings. He gets some amazing responses, and learns how people are teaming up to support one another.
Kendall Worth: Woman on social assistance harassed on the bus
One of the many hard things about having to depend on social assistance is the stigma. People often assume you’re lazy, even though invisible disabilities stop you from working. The other day poverty advocate Kendall Worth talked with one such person, who got verbally attacked by her fellow passengers on the bus.
Open letter to Premier Stephen McNeil: Stop the EI and CPP Disability clawbacks for people on income assistance
When you’re on income assistance EI benefits and CPP Disability are clawed back 100%. “Taking that money is insulting. People should be allowed to keep these payments, since they contributed to both CPP disability and Employment insurance while working,” writes poverty activist Kendall Worth in an open letter to premier Steven McNeil.
Kendall Worth: Double stigma, when you’re poor and have mental health concerns
Poverty activist Kendall Worth met up with a young woman o social assistance who lives with invisible disabilities. Family and co-workers don’t understand what that means, and that makes for a hard life.
Kendall Worth: Bus pass raises hopes of employment for couple on income assistance
Kendall Worth meets up with a couple on income assistance, all set to do a serious job search now that they have a free bus pass and a phone. Just goes to show what a difference access to public transportation makes. “Now that we have both the bus pass and the phone, we are planning to get down to business with looking for meaningful employment,” Peter and Peggy tell Kendall. “Kendall, we are tired of living with the bureaucratic nonsense. We are tired of it, and we hope that now that we got our free bus pass we can get off this system.”
Kendall Worth: Poverty and staying healthy and fit
Kendall Worth: Wouldn’t it be great if Community Services were to support people on income assistance who want to exercise and get fit?