PHASE I BUDGET CUTS IN HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Crisis Deepens for Phase II

by Anne L. Henry

The House and Senate adopted their proposals to eliminate the $356 million deficit for this fiscal year, ending June 30, 2003.  In the health and human services area, the House adopted most of the governor’s proposals and added a number of their own.  The Senate adopted some of the governor’s proposed cuts and declined to accept others, but added hospital and social service grant payment shifts and other savings for this biennium.  

Learning About No. 7

By Marj Schneider

Jane Diers Wong grew up in a family that told stories.  Her grandmother had been raised in Duluth, and every summer of her childhood, Jane went along when her grandmother returned there to visit.  Jane says she could almost predict which stories her grandmother would tell during those visits—about growing up and about events in the family’s past. . . .

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