The Peru Gazette

Mark Hamilton, Director of the Plattsburgh Housing Authority, “The way that things are structured now is that when you work and you have income, and that threshold’s not high, you will no longer qualify for some of the support services that you would have qualified for before,” said Hamilton. “And so now you’re sort of on your own. But again, you can’t make all the ends meet because you can’t pay for health insurance and you can’t pay for daycare. And it’s really just incredibly difficult.”

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