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New task force to tackle poverty via Poverty News Blog June 16th, 2008 at 13:05

image from the Lancaster Eagle Gazette By TIERRA PALMERLANCASTER - More than two-thirds of the 12,000 telephone calls Fairfield County Job & Family Services receives each month are from people who need financial assistance or access to health care."Many of these families have worked all their lives. They're not asking to own a house or even to send their children to college. All they're asking for is to be able to eat and to take their children to the doctor when they're sick and to be able to get to work," said Laura Holton, community services director for JFS.Holton, like other local social service providers, hopes an initiative recently established by Gov. Ted Strickland will help identify solutions for the growing poverty problem.Strickland signed an executive order May 28 establishing...