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Food For Thought (And Survival)
St. Anthony Dining Room and Social Work Center try to fill in the gaps of escalating food needs for San Francisco’s poor. The economic crisis has filled our minds, news and conversations with many...
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Government Doesn’t Provide Services To Rich People?
Last week, California’s Director of Finance, Mike Genest, was quoted in the New York Time’s saying “Government doesn’t provide services to rich people. It doesn’t even really provide services to the...
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Why NOT Raise Taxes?
A friend of mine has bi-polar disease. She has worked for periods in her life and she’s looking for a part time job now. But for several years she has lived on government assistance in a government...
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California Takes A Bigger Bite Out Of Our Paychecks
Balancing the budget on our backs makes news. When the news was broken yesterday that an additional 10% tax will be placed on Californians’ income you could hear the panic in the headlines, in small...
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From the Intern Desk …
Written by Vincent, St. Mary’s College “Jan Term” intern who took advantage of opportunities to serve at St. Anthony Free Medical Clinic and St. Anthony Dining Room, while also participating in...
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MUNI: The “Luxury” Line Of Public Transportation
Recently I moved, and unfortunately moved away from BART, which means I’m joining the masses of disgruntled early morning commuters toe-tapping and scowling at the nextbus ticker delivering the less...
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The Strength Of Our Seniors Will Equal Their Days
In San Francisco, nearly one in three people over 75 years old lives in poverty. This is more any other county in California. Not L.A. with its massive urban poverty, not Tulare with its thousands of...
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Hunger Among Low Income Seniors and the Disabled
Here’s a simple question with a complicated answer: Why are there so many seniors and people with disabilities who eat at the St. Anthony’s Free Dining Room? In order to answer that question, you have...
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Senior Protein Drive: Nutritional Building Blocks for Health
When people think about hunger, they don’t often picture their grandparent. Nearly three quarters of St. Anthony’s food pantry clients are seniors. Many of them must make the difficult decision...
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Tarnished Golden Years for Some
Thanks to everyone who participated in St. Anthony’s Senior Protein Drive! Our Social Work Center Pantry, which helps seniors augment their diets to ensure healthy nutrition, received approximately...
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