Bracing for the Squeeze - The Boston Globe

posted Mar 7, 2011, 10:02 AM by Community Action WORKS! [ updated Mar 7, 2011, 10:05 AM ]

By: MEGHAN IRONS

Published: March 7, 2011

Boston

The prosperity that brought higher condo prices, urban professionals, and a chic reputation to Charlestown did not make it to this corner of the neighborhood. Languishing in the shadows of Charlestown’s rising fortunes are the very poor, who have long sought hot meals, early childhood education programs, or fuel assistance at ABCD’s John F. Kennedy Family Service Center. But the Kennedy and 16 other centers that provide vital services to 30,000 of Boston’s poorest residents are bracing for federal cuts that leaders say could force many to close.

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Bracing for the Squeeze - The Boston Globe