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The scheme provides hampers filled with gifts, food, toiletries and other essentials for the most vulnerable residents of London during the Christmas period.

2004 Canadian Recipient (Individual): Megan Oleson Megan Oleson is a nurse and activist who has been tireless in her fight to protect the health and human rights of some of the most vulnerable residents of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

If you are a senior citizen trying to live on social security, this may be catastrophic since it may make it necessary to choose between food and electricity, as has already been reported in the case of some of the more vulnerable residents of the UK.

The mission of Bread for the Cityis to provide vulnerable residents of Washington, DC with comprehensive services, including food, clothing, medical care, and legal and social services, in an atmosphere of dignity and respect.

Not exact matches

Michigan does not have an audit system, but it's important to note that the state's residents vote on optical scan machines, a type of machine that's considered less vulnerable to hacking than the paperless, touchscreen machines used in some other states.

Just 16 states and the District of Columbia have set up their own health insurance marketplaces, which left millions of residents in the 34 states that rely on exchanges run by the federal government vulnerable to the Supreme Court's ruling.

Some critics say Denver's booming economy is leaving behind the city's most vulnerable residents, a trend they predict would accelerate if the city was chosen as the site of a new Amazon headquarters.

The pages of the Torah resonate with a profound concern for the socially and economically vulnerable in society — the poor, day laborers, orphans and widows, resident aliens, and even the Levites who, unlike members of other tribes, were assigned no parcels of land in Israel.

«Every day, they stand up and fight for New York City residents, they fight to keep our public hospitals open and serving our most vulnerable patients and on behalf of the thousands of nurses in NYC and the thousands that serve within our public hospital system, we applaud and enthusiastically support these candidates who stand with our patients and communities.»

George Gresham, President of 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, said, «We commend Governor Cuomo's innovative plan to study and eliminate inefficiencies in Medicaid while preserving the quality of care for our most vulnerable residents.

The situation in Albany would be weird in any political environment, but it's highly problematic in the Trump era, when proposed federal immigration and health care policies have made millions of New York's residents vulnerable.

The State must seize this opportunity to make New York a more affordable place for some of our most vulnerable residents.

The Executive Budget rightly recognizes the need to address issues affecting some of the poorest and most vulnerable residents in our state.

«These companies essentially told New Yorkers «no Section 8 residents need apply,» mirroring decades of discrimination against our City's most vulnerable residents.

YORKVILLE — Hundreds of residents blasted the planned East 91st Marine Transfer Station Tuesday, saying the project would leave poor and elderly residents vulnerable to high levels of pollution and vermin.

Sheehan certainly may be vulnerable to this sort of attack thanks to her trouble connecting with residents and the perception that she is lecturing the city rather than listening.

As a representative for Upper Manhattan and the Bronx, and Chair of the New York State Senate Latino Conference, I believe our community will not be well served by this proposal; it will hit our low - income and vulnerable residents the hardest.

Nearly 2,000 AFSCME members will be in town today to lobby state lawmakers in hopes of getting them to reject Gov. Andrew Cuomo's «dramatic» cuts to education and health care, which unions says will disproportionately hurt the state's most vulnerable residents, raise unemployment and undermine progress made in the recovery of New York's economy.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced $ 658 million to support access to healthy and nutritious food for some of New York's most vulnerable residents.

And it's with a great pleasure that I support the development of Compass Residences in The Bronx, and I am proud to have provided $ 1.3 million in capital funding for construction of these worthy projects that will help improve the lives of many of our must vulnerable residents.»

Today's victory will help ensure that we deliver real progress for the most vulnerable, marginalized, and overlooked residents of our five boroughs.

«The county executive brought this issue to my attention as something he wanted to introduce and I look forward to continuing to work with the him and Department of Social Services to bring about the necessary changes to protect our vulnerable residents.»

Ensuring that all residents, especially the most vulnerable, are protected is among the top priorities of elected officials.

I am very pleased that we have worked together to formulate a budget that addresses the needs of all Dutchess County residents, including our most vulnerable.»

Dr Kisessa who spoke on the theme of the seminar tagged «Overview of the Social Protection Initiative in Osun», said UNICEF has been monitoring the social protection initiatives of the state government, a commitment which she said he impacted greatly in the lives of the residents of the state most especially the downtrodden and vulnerable.

In a Citi News interview, Mr. Vanderpuye lamented the insecurity in the area, which he says puts the lives of vulnerable residents at risk.

Mr. de Blasio has made supportive housing — which is affordable housing for vulnerable populations with services like healthcare, substance abuse, and mental health help on site for residents — a central component of his plan to tackle the city's ongoing homeless crisis, which has seen both the shelter and the street population on the rise.

Cuomo's State of the State message to the Legislature, printed up this week, calls the funding a «historic investment (that is)... urgently needed to bring transformational benefits to New York's most vulnerable residents.»

Gjonaj's quick response to the threat of Legionnaire's Disease to vulnerable residents was laudable.

The new fund — «Warm and Well Cornwall» — targets residents who are in poor health or at risk of ill health, or with underlying health issues, or caring for a vulnerable person or worried about their home being cold or damp.

«Adopting a formal policy helps alleviate fear in the most vulnerable of our residents and builds trust between those residents and police and other authorities in town.»

And though we are looking forward we have not forgotten the current difficulties of our most vulnerable residents.

«I look forward to working with all of Hampshire County Council's Members in serving the county's 1.3 million residents over this next Administration period — delivering important public services; from education, roads, highways and social care for vulnerable children and adults, to access to the countryside and libraries.»

Health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker accused the EPA of sowing confusion and unnecessarily causing anxiety among vulnerable residents.

Recognizing the need to protect our most vulnerable residents, the Legislature voted to add positions in the Department of Social Services, where these individuals will work closely with at - risk families to help protect children from abuse.

The Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center is a not - for - profit health clinic which has served thousands of the most vulnerable residents and families in Westchester County regardless of their ability to pay.

«New York is a deep blue state, but we don't have the firewall of progressive legislation that we would need to protect our most vulnerable residents from the worst onslaught of a Trump administration,» said Susan Kang, a CUNY political science professor who lives in IDC Sen. José Peralta's district and who volunteers with No IDC NY.

Already a full month into the fiscal year and without a budget agreement in sight, the state — now operating under the tight financial constraints of an executive order — is cutting services to its most vulnerable residents.

And his spokesman, Eric Phillips, had dismissed Stringer's critiques of de Blasio's work to help the city's most vulnerable residents as the kind made «when you have never run anything and don't know what you're talking about.»

The Brooklyn district attorney's office, promising to seek «equal and fair justice» for the borough's vulnerable foreign - born residents, has created a policy that tailors prosecutions to avoid, when possible, the deportation or detention of immigrants charged with certain misdemeanors or nonviolent crimes.

Wymore also accused Rosenthal of poor constituent services that left vulnerable residents neglected.

Mark - Viverito said the portal «ensures that our most vulnerable residents receive necessary nutrition assistance, while those donating help to lessen the amount of waste created by unused food products every day.»

The bill expands the Senior Citizen Homeowners» Exemption (SCHE) and the Disabled Homeowners» Exemption (DHE), two indispensable programs that offer some of New York's most vulnerable residents who live on fixed incomes with a 50 % reduction on their property taxes.

Thousands of residents, including particularly vulnerable children, were exposed to dangerously elevated levels of lead.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed buying out residents in vulnerable areas and replacing their homes with wetlands and dunes to move people out of harm's way and buffer the city against storm surges.

Yet it does leave the vast majority of bacterial residents exposed and therefore vulnerable to a follow - up round of antibiotics or the natural attacks of the body's immune system.

It is the first evaluation of the vaccine in long - term care residents, which is the population most vulnerable to flu - related death.

For example, Hurricane Katrina demonstrated how vulnerable certain groups of people were to extreme weather events, because many low - income and of - color New Orleans residents were killed, injured, or had difficulty evacuating and recovering from the storm.242, 239,265,266,243,240,268,234,269,270

Support from Penn Medicine is a critical resource to some of Philadelphia's most vulnerable residents, and to the city at large.

Severe coastal flooding during storms in January and March of this year jolted Massachusetts residents and officials into an unwelcome awareness of just how vulnerable we are to rising sea levels.