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We needed unemployment reform years ago, and there’s a crisis now

We needed unemployment reform years ago, and there’s a crisis now

by Dave Eisenstadter | Apr 1, 2020 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News

I’m sad to report that I was among those laid off last week by Valley Advocate parent company Newspapers of New England, which also owns the Daily Hampshire Gazette and the Greenfield Recorder. As you can see, I’m still here writing the Advocate’s...
We needed unemployment reform years ago, and there’s a crisis now

Giving Migrants A Chance To Live Their True Identities

by Dave Eisenstadter | Mar 25, 2020 | Articles, Featured

As we recognize the many local businesses for being the Best in the Valley in this issue, as voted by our readers, it is a difficult time for businesses of all types — including this one. Realities of the economic effects of the coronavirus have not spared us, and we...
Podcast: Jonathan Jenner and Hope on the Western Mass Asylum Support Network

Podcast: Jonathan Jenner and Hope on the Western Mass Asylum Support Network

by Dave Eisenstadter | Mar 23, 2020 | Articles, Featured, Podcast

In continuation of Luis Fieldman’s “Seeking Asylum in Western Mass” series, part 2 of the series explores those in the region who are helping asylum seekers settle in western Massachusetts. Jonathan Jenner, a founder of the Western Massachusetts...
We needed unemployment reform years ago, and there’s a crisis now

Editorial: A pandemic is a time to remember the vulnerable

by Dave Eisenstadter | Mar 18, 2020 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News

As news pours in regarding the coronavirus, it is becoming clear the scale of how many people’s lives are affected in such dramatic ways. In terms of the Advocate’s function as the keeper of the community calendar, we’re having to reinvent as we go with the vast...
Editorial: Investigating the treatment of asylum seekers in the U.S.

Editorial: Investigating the treatment of asylum seekers in the U.S.

by Dave Eisenstadter | Mar 11, 2020 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News

This week, the Advocate begins a three-part series by Luis Fieldman about asylum seekers who have made it to western Massachusetts, and those who have helped to get them here. Political stability is something we in the United States take for granted. Even having the...
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