Invest in Tomorrow intends to develop an action plan to help children, which ultimately will help the state’s workforce.
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Shelters expect heavy holiday demand driven by high winds, frigid temperatures
Highs in Portland are forecast to top out in the teens Thursday, with wind chills well below zero.
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Portland council seeking unity on model for new homeless shelter
Councilor Kimberly Cook decides not to ask for a council vote on replacing the city’s adult facility with a single city-run shelter while a committee considers its recommendation.
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Portland man has plan to convert cruise ship into homeless shelter
MemoryWorks director Kenneth Capron seeks a grant that would fund a feasibility study.
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Director of Portland shelter is leaving, saying the high-stress job has worn him down
Rob Parritt says the work has become all-consuming and he will give it up after overseeing the city’s increasingly overwhelmed Oxford Street Shelter for the better part of a decade.
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Preble Street’s plan to scale back hours at day shelter in Bayside worries its users and its neighbors
Facing rising costs and less public funding, the agency makes a decision that could exacerbate the needs of the homeless and undermine efforts to reduce disorderly behavior in the area.
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Global poverty rate reaches record low of 10 percent
A tenth of the world’s population lived on less than $1.90 a day in 2015, the World Bank says.
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As Portland seeks compensation for shelter costs, Maine welfare directors tell towns not to pay
General Assistance administrators claim the city is misinterpreting ordinances in an effort to collect money for people who go to Portland’s emergency shelters from other communities.
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Portland’s plan for new shelter in Nason’s Corner is put on hold as councilors consider alternatives
City councilors ask for more analysis and additional siting options after intense opposition to the proposed site on Brighton Avenue.
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Model homeless shelter is ammunition for both sides in Portland conflict
Opponents of Portland’s plan for a new shelter point to tensions in Montana – site of a facility that has garnered praise from officials here.