Solutions to poverty are elusive [stowetoday.com]

As a single mother living off disability payments and trying to raise two kids over age 5, Saudia LaMont is in crisis.

“I’m fighting like a cat in a wet paper bag to protect my children and find services for my family,” LaMont said.

LaMont is a recovery coach, a community advocate, and a group facilitator living in Morrisville, and she says that child services from agencies such as Capstone Community Action are great for kids up to age 5, but after that, they leave people in a limbo.

[For more on this story by Kayla Collier, go to http://www.stowetoday.com/news...d2-4f7dc627d5d2.html]

Photo: It costs an estimated $1,000 to pay for a year’s worth of diapers for a single child. At a Citizen’s Forum of Vermont meeting on poverty held at Zenbarn in Waterbury Sunday night, residents donated nearly 1,000 diapers to help those in need in central Vermont.