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Article: More Need, Less Help; As South Carolina's job losses mount, agencies and charities are stymied by budget cuts and politics. [Correction 3/18/09]
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 12, 2009
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The scenes here are now familiar in places deeply bruised by the
recession: The Salvation Army gets so many calls from people
desperate for help with overdue utility bills that, one morning, its
phone system crashed. The Family Service Center of South Carolina is
deluged with clients seeking free counseling for delinquent
mortgages. And the shelves at the Life Force food pantry run out of
rice, canned stew meat and black-eyed peas in less than an hour.
Yet in few places is the nonprofit sphere being tested as
profoundly as in this Southern city -- the capital of a state
where, figures released yesterday show, the unemployment rate is now
the second worst in the nation and conservative ...