Is there a spot for the BV Emergency Food Shelter?

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I agree with Arthur that business and city officials would not want that as a cornerstone of downtown Pawtucket. Look at the future of trying to build up the downtown or do we want to abandon it to let it be a homeless shelter and a haven for those who are taking and not giving. Certainly business would not want to locate where there are only poor customers or those with no cash to spend.

I am sure the community could find a way to outreach and consolidate both to help the poorer people in the community

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The city is looking at the idea of some relocation & consolidation and supplying food pantries etc, so I am sure we will see some announcements in the future of a positive nature .

I am sure a call or note to the city officials would help speed the process, but even your postings here do catch the eyes of the city.

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March 29, 2009

Dear Jimmy,

You make many good points in your first paragraph, especially about businesses not wanting to enter a downtown district with poor people.

On the other hand, many clients who use food pantries are struggling through two or three part-time jobs that do not provide living wages.

Maybe businesses could be lured into the city that could provide living wages.  Therefore, food pantry clients would need less assistance.

Thank you for your thoughtful comments.

Peace,  Jim 

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That is why we need New England and RI to do innovative things that are from well educated people who have new ideas and can make things or service things from RI rather than China or other countries.

Whether it comes from the artistic community or from the technology area, there are things that can be done. Providence has a few incubator sites for small and growing businesses to bounce off each other with synergistic ideas that make one plus one equal three or four.

One can not pay more value if the prices are not there, thus the poorly educated no skills workers will not be able to get high paid jobs. The schools have allowed too many students to pass thru without an education they can sell in the marketplace.

I am sure most of us buy products made abroad and most of those products are made by low skilled workers abroad, but even those jobs are fewer here.

How many of the low skilled folks have tried to take advantage of the trainings thru Network RI or other job training places? Many of our own students can not read and some are unskilled illegal aliens who won't take advantage or can't and won't take the time to learn English if they came legally now even with the job situation so critical.

There are many issues which create the problem and we need to pull all the pieces together for solutions and not attack things piecemeal to point fingers, but lace the fingers and the hands together of all parties for solutions

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