Stories Of Struggle

• It's scary. S. Derbyline, VT September 19, 2011
• We are applying for food stamps because we did not get our minimum numbers to have a new class this year in our Druid School. Folks cant afford tuition so we cant afford food! Catherine Worcester, VT September 13, 2011
• hard richard Rutland, VT September 8, 2011
• The older you are the less there is! No one wants to hire me. I've been aroudn enough tht I can't pass a credic check, background check, physical or eye exam.
  I have only been one away from financial sisaster all my life. I've had to sleep in my car, camp out, pick up beer cans beside the road even steal to feed myself and three children.
  I've been buyrned out in winter with no insurance, robbed by everyone I ever met from employers to the government in one way or another ona daily basis since I was born. Both myself and my sons have been stranded, our family home defiled, wrongfully arrested, barred and cheated in every way you can in America or the earthly world.
  I've been laughed at, fired, evicted at the worst possible moment for the worst possible excuses you ca imagine.
  
  ELDERLY SECURITY: In a few years I'l be dead and a week later not a soul will remember my face or worries. Gary Orleans, VT September 2, 2011
• i broke my ankle one year and i was in a situation where i didn't have no money and nothing else and my daughter was 4 months old. We lived and on my husband's pay which was $100 a week we were right down to nothing. L Newport, VT September 2, 2011
• my husband and i live from one paycheck to another. In between we do a lot of praying. It's hard to find a job when you get to be my age. Janice Derby, VT September 2, 2011
• I have been "one away" for the past 20 yrs and still am. I have been trhough disaster repeatedly. I have lost my ancstral gamily home and most of its contents to a tax sale. ... i lost... two new behicles and my self respect and health. I am in the process of slowly climbing out of the hole, but remain one paycheck away from another, greater disaster. VT Associates is my only hope for salvation. dana Newport, VT September 2, 2011
• I lost my house of 35 years to foreclosure. Had to file bankrupcy, went rhoguh a divorce and lost al my self respect. Because of my depression, quit my job of over 35 years.
  There are no jobs in this area. Have tried for several admin positions, to no avail. G Newport, VT September 2, 2011
• until i started with VT Associates i was one away... i would have lost my car. thank you. Earl Newport, VT September 2, 2011
• I lost my job as a caregiver. Between my income cut and our retiremend fund swirling the drain & the cost of everything going up i feel economic disaster is very possible. I have no health insurance and no oil in my oil tank. We can no longer absorb price hikes. MArie Lowell, VT September 2, 2011