George Wiley Center
32 East Avenue, Pawtucket, Rhode Island 02860 Phone: (401) 728-5555 Fax:
(401) 725-1020
Henry Shelton, Coordinator
Our Mission: The George Wiley Center is a statewide group actively committed to local community organizing for the purpose of creating social and economic justice through changes in public policy.
• June 25th Affordable Energy Action Alert: A BIG turn out is needed in support of H-6079, The Home Energy Rate Affordability Act, at the House Finance Committee Hearing on Thursday, June 25th, at 1:00pm. Can't make it in person? Call your local Representative BEFORE Thursday to let him/her know of your support for H-6079.
People living below 150% of the federal poverty line in Rhode Island are often forced to pay upwards of 40% of their monthly income for electric and gas service. Rhode Island is the only state in New England that does not supplement federal heating assistance. The budget is a mess — and our poorest neighbors are hurting the most. Help prevent a cruel choice between electric service & food or medicine or rent by telling your representative that you will pay $1.40 per month to end utility shut-offs on the very poor!
• We now have the nation's strongest utility protections for children. Rhode Island law forbids utility shut-offs for financial reasons year-round in households where children 24 months old or under reside.
• Rhode Island now operates the H-EAT program for food stamp recipients living in apartments that include utilities in their rent. When the H-EAT program began in November, 9,410 low-income Rhode Islanders got an average increase of $86 in their monthly food stamps benefit. That amounts to $9.7 million of federal funds per year to help low-income consumers buy food and stimulate the local economy.
