Description: Health care workers demonstrate in favor of Michael Dukakis' proposed cap on hospital charges, claiming any increases would benefit only the administrators.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/14/1987
Description: Proposed budget has small items with big impact: increased charges for MBTA communities & Quabbin drinking water communities & abolition of consumer complaint mediation. Theodore Mann, Marc Draisen.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/22/1991
Description: High school students congregate at State House to express dissatisfaction with school program cuts and demand taxes to fund education. Nicholas Paleologos, Marjorie Clapprood, Sal Albano, Harold Raynolds.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/13/1990
Description: Home care workers assemble in State House to protest funding cuts and lobby for inclusion in next year's budget. Paul Lanzikos, Elder Affairs Secretary. Sen. John Houston.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/23/1989
Description: Home care workers wage pseudo-guerrilla warfare to secure higher wages. They don camouflage caps & khaki jackets to lobby legislators. Elder care.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/04/1988
Description: With cold weather imminent, homeless people rally at State House to protest cut in funding for emergency shelters. Capitol police usher demonstrators away.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/15/1989
Description: In state-sponsored program, veterans act as outreach workers to help homeless, unemployed fellow veterans get homes and jobs. Dukakis commends program as effective and money-saving.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/20/1989
Description: Rents and numbers of homeless people rise inexorably. Massachusetts' attempts to provide shelter, subsidies and affordable housing are inadequate. Project Hope.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/06/1988
Description: Keverian says if Senate passes auto insurance reform bill, House will reconvene to consider it and other motions which may be made. This dismays Dukakis presidential campaign. Sen. Linda Melconian.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/19/1988
Description: House goes back into session and does not hurry to address the state budget crisis. Reps. Kevin Poirier, Robert Hayes, Edward Teague III, Nelson Merced.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/26/1990