Kendall Worth: Facebook must do better!
Kendall Worth has been harassed online in the past, and he has had other issues as well. He finds Facebook falling short when it comes to shielding and supporting its users.
Lives on welfare
Kendall Worth: Then and now
It’s Kendall’s birthday today. Meet Jason and Kate (not their real names), two welfare recipients who knew each other from back in the days when they lived a better off life. Kendall talks with them about birthdays and how life has changed altogether.
Kendall Worth: “Summertime is the most socially isolated time of year for the both of us”
Reporter Kendall Worth meets up with Marie and Alice, two women on social assistance who dream about the day when they can afford to live somewhere where during the summer months they can have a BBQ out on their back decks or on their balconies. “Summertime is the most socially isolated time of year for the both of us, because of lack of funds to do things and the extra time spent by our lonesome,” they tell him.
Kendall Worth: Lives on welfare – Nathan’s story
Kendall Worth profiles Nathan (not his real name), who tells Kendall about his tiny income assistance budget, his loneliness and his fragile mental health.
Kendall Worth: Julie’s story
Kendall Worth meets up with Julie, who is on income assistance and talks about how caseworkers basically control your life. “Julie was even told to keep the receipts of everything she spent so at her income assistance intake interview the intake worker can determine the money she had saved in her bank account was spent reasonably.”
Kendall Worth: Community Services policies stop people from building supportive relationships
People on income assistance feel that if they had been in a relationship of some sort during the pandemic it would have made a world of difference in their lives. One obstacle is right in the Community Services policy manual, writes Kendall Worth.
Kendall Worth: This never ending pandemic is wearing us down
Kendall Worth: We are in another lockdown in HRM. People in my community tell me that they are discouraged and scared. It has just been one thing after another. The bomb of social isolation has hit them hard.
Nova Scotia Budget 2021: ‘Historic’ increase promises slightly less starving for income assistance recipients
That ‘historic’ increase in income assistance really doesn’t amount to much, write journalists Kendall Worth and Robert Devet. Here’s why.
Weekend video: Journalist Kendall Worth receives congratulatory certificate from Gary Burrill
Weekend video: In a brief ceremony Nova Scotia Advocate journalist Kendall Worth receives a congratulatory certificate from Nova Scotia NDP leader Gary Burrill, recognizing his journalism and tireless activism on behalf of people living in poverty.
Kendall Worth: Poor-bashers should educate themselves on income assistance
For those of you who believe in telling welfare recipients right to their faces to get a job, you are doing nothing to help them. All you are doing is raising their anxiety and the mental health issues they already have, writes Kendall Worth.