Kendall Worth: Pretending New Year’s Eve isn’t even happening
Reporter and First Voice poverty activist Kendall Worth on the many barriers that stop poor people from celebrating New Year’s Eve the way middle and upper class people do.
Kendall Worth: Online dating, poverty, and that special someone
Poverty advocate Kendall Worth relates the happy story of how one one woman escaped social isolation through online dating. However, “online dating is not always safe. It’s not something I would personally want to pursue,” he writes.
Kendall Worth: How Community Services stops people on income assistance from living together
Anti-poverty activist Kendall Worth on the many hurdles faced by people on income assistance if they choose to live together, either to save money and have a bit of companionship, or for romantic reasons. When you’re poor you just can’t win.
Lives on welfare: No privacy in her building, yet nowhere to go
Frequent contributor and anti-poverty activist Kendall Worth reports on the case of a woman who gets harassed by a neighbour in her apartment building and neither her landlord nor the police are willing to put a stop to it. Because she is on welfare she can’t just pack up her stuff and move. She may well end up homeless as a result, she says.
Kendall Worth: We really need a 24/7 drop in centre to tackle problems of social isolation
Social isolation leads people living in poverty to go to the QEII Emergency Department just to experience a bit of human warmth. Kendall Worth investigates.
Kendall Worth: A very sad story
Kendall Worth with a short and sad story about a woman living with developmental disabilities and mental health issues who lost her job and is dreading the day she will have to apply for social assistance.
Nightly police check-ups not welcome, says woman recovering from surgery
Kendall Worth follows up on his earlier stories about a woman who had to go in for day surgery but who had nobody to stay with her during the first two weeks of her eight-week recovery, even though the hospital insisted that this be the case. Turns out she has been getting nightly check-up visits from the police. No matter how well intended, she isn’t happy about it, especially since the visits were arranged by the hospital without her permission.
Letter from Kendall Worth: Mind your own business!
Kendall Worth’ short letter about people on social assistance being harassed by members of their community who don’t know the realities of lives on welfare from a hole in the ground.
Kendall Worth: when it comes to poverty it is time to get loud
Kendall Worth on the need to raise the rates, and other demands now that the legislature will be sitting again on September 21.
Kendall Worth: Why I spoke at the Halifax Labour Day event and what I learned
Poverty activist Kendall Worth spoke fearlessly at the Halifax Labour Day celebrations. Here he talks about what that was like, and why it makes perfect sense to talk about social assistance and poverty at a Labour event.