Thelma D. Burns likes to give fellow senior citizens flowers “when they can smell them” — not at their funerals. So Action for Boston Community Development, the anti-poverty agency whose board she has ...

There’s a saying that is often attributed to Gandhi — that a society is best judged by how it treats the people who have the least — the homeless, jobless, working poor, immigrant communities, seniors ...

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