郑立新： 2025-08-16 08:39:26

If there is one thing Elaine Fludgate wants to emphasize, it is that she is not the neediest. Nope, not her. What she is, she said, is the luckiest, the most grateful: She was caught before she actually fell through the cracks. For 40 years, Ms. Fludgate, 62, has lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Her most recent job was as an administrator for the Kimmel Center for University Life at New York University, where in 2013 she was a recipient of the college’s Award for outstanding work. She had a loving partner, Michael, by her side. Ms. Fludgate had a good life. But everything changed in late 2013, after Ms. Fludgate learned that her partner had liver cancer. She left her job to care for him, helping him until he died in March 2015. “The depth of my grief was really unbearable,” Ms. Fludgate said. “He was my life for 32 years. That was just us. So he’s gone, and I’m nothing. ” Ms. Fludgate retreated to her apartment, sitting at times in the dark, leaving her solitude only when her cats needed food. As her savings dwindled, Ms. Fludgate resorted to selling items like furniture and jewelry on eBay. She got rid of almost everything, hanging on to only a few items, including a sentimental pair of earrings she has had since she was 18. “It’s embarrassing,” she said. “I had a great job at a university. And then my life just fell apart. ” After seven months of painful grief, she finally forced herself from the couch, venturing to the Center at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, an assistance center for older adults, to see what help it could offer her. “I realize you can only go so far deep into the rabbit hole,” Ms. Fludgate said. “So I came here, and I was truly a basket case. ” At the center, she was connected to the Service Program for Older People. She joined a bereavement group, was assigned a social worker and therapists and was prescribed antidepressants. “It was very cathartic to be with people who have experienced the hell of losing a loved one,” Ms. Fludgate said. Then in April 2016, eviction notices started appearing on her apartment door. “If I got thrown out, of course, I’d live in a women’s shelter on Park Avenue because I could tell people I was living on Park Avenue,” Ms. Fludgate said, her coping response characteristic of her humor, not haughtiness. Fortunately, in June, she successfully applied for disability and Social Security benefits, which included enough money to pay off her rental arrears, as well as mounting credit card debt. “It’s incredible, but I just want to get across how quickly, especially in this city, you come from the heights and then to get the depths of depression and the whole thing,” Ms. Fludgate said. She currently receives $1, 570 a month in Social Security, $154 in food stamps and a small stipend from a job as a counselor for seniors, a job that ends this week. Last summer, her caseworker at the Service Program for Older People asked Ms. Fludgate if she needed anything, but she said she at first felt too guilty and too proud to tell the truth. Before long, Ms. Fludgate acknowledged she could use help and expressed her desire for new furniture to spruce up her barren apartment. The caseworker, Carola Chase, contacted FPWA, formerly the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, one of the eight organizations supported by The New York Times Neediest Cases. It secured a $1, 000 grant in Neediest Cases funds to allow Ms. Fludgate to buy a sofa, a chair and a console table. “It’s really made a big difference,” she said. “I have had people to my house since I got the new furniture. ” Little by little, her life had been improving. On the first day of this year, Ms. Fludgate lost her health insurance coverage and could no longer afford her medication or receive the services that helped her with her grief. She maintains regular contact with the new friends she made in her bereavement group and leans on them often for assistance. She said she was grateful for every bit of support. “If I had stayed sitting on the couch, I would have lost another 20 pounds, but you wouldn’t have got me anywhere,” Ms. Fludgate said. She is considering trying to the work force full time, she said. But she worries she is at the age where landing a job may be impossible. “I don’t have a goal,” Ms. Fludgate said. “I’m just trying to do baby steps. ”

Steyne： 2025-08-16 08:38:46

　　之后
，涉案项目所在地潼南区政府又专门开发绿色通道——加速相关手续审批
，允许企业缓交税费……现在
，这座一经的“烂尾楼”已酿成漂亮的花园小区。其时强烈阻挡处置惩罚计划的债权人拉着徐红的手
，一直地致谢。

李众多： 2025-08-16 08:39:25

　　本报讯（记者刘洋）克日
，一篇“人心的貌寝
，这样‘为人民效劳的警员’”的帖子在腾讯等网站论坛上撒播。发帖者称
，浙江省有民警在搜救溺水女孩前
，追问“住址在哪”、“电话号码几多”等问题
，拖延救援时间
，使女童溺亡。对此
，该民警所在派出所昨天回应称
，不确定孩子落水所在
，不可下水救人。

傅学胜： 2025-08-16 08:38:57

细密联系人民群众体贴的热门、难点、焦点问题
，把党和政府所办的与群众所盼的统一起来
，与解决群众的疑惑、矛盾和问题联系起来
，多反应群众的事情生涯
，多体现通俗黎民的高尚头脑境界。

牟子文： 2025-08-16 08:39:03

　　中国台湾网11月13日认真马英九官邸“中兴寓所”清静维护的一名台军中士
，昨破晓酒驾载着辣妹在台北市东区逆向行驶
，警车发明准备拦捕
，酒醉士兵妄想逃逸
，竟在窄巷内加速乱窜
，数度差点撞到路人
，他一连铲倒路边26辆摩托车、再逆向撞上一辆BMWX5休旅车才落网
，所幸整个猖獗行径未酿成伤亡。

洛尔·克拉克： 2025-08-16 08:39:18

從資產端看
，經濟運行進入再平衡階段
，資產報酬率周期性降低
，高票息優質資產供給欠缺