Help lines for gambling addicts

Help lines for gambling addicts
For general gambling help information, contact the Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling through GamblingHelp.org or 888-ADMIT-IT. For more on South Florida Gamblers' Anonymous meetings, go to GamblersAnonymous.org and click on "Meeting Directory" or call 888-GA-HELPS.
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Help for homeless teens
A new center to help homeless teens has opened in Tampa, and its backers say the need for it is great.
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Fault Lines extra - California voices - Republican Assemblyman

California is in fiscal crisis and Governor Schwarzenegger has a radical plan to balance the budget by slashing government spending. Fault Lines speaks to Chuck Devore, an outspoken opponent of tax-hikes who represents the people of Orange County in the California State Assembly. He is running for US Senate in 2010. "Our policies are really subsidizing poverty and penalizing productivity," he says.

Fault Lines extra - California voices - Health rights advocate

California is in fiscal crisis and Governor Schwarzenegger has a radical plan to balance the budget by slashing government spending. Fault Lines speaks to Jim Mangia, director at the St John's Center. An advocate for health and human rights in LAs poorest neighborhoods, Mangia runs a network of 12 community clinics that serve primarily uninsured and undocumented people. The clinic staff expect be overwhelmed as a result of the proposed cuts to state health insurance programs. "Were talking about basically unraveling the safety net. So whats going to happen? Youre going to see what happened in the depression, where people were literally dying on the streets," he says.