Fortunately for us, the California Budget Project is doing a lot of the hard work of documenting some of the impacts of the massive cuts we’ve had over the last few years. And unsurprisingly, the cuts have really been painful for the poor especially.<\/p>\n
The nonpartisan California Budget Project last week issued fact sheets on recent cuts<\/a> to programs that give stipends to the poor and disabled, families going from welfare to work and a health insurance program for needy kids.<\/p>\n
Jean Ross, executive director of the project, said the idea came from one result of a Field Poll question showing that about half the state’s residents felt no impact from California budget cuts.<\/p>\n
“We were trying to document that there had been large cuts and large amounts of dollars lost,” Ross said. <\/p>\n
Her staff set out to examine how several programs were hit and how each county may have swaths of people struggling to cover costs. (California Watch<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The results? Well, the cuts to the healthy families program<\/a> have meant that 50,000 fewer children will have insurance. The disabled and others receiving suplemental SSI payments, will see almost 15% less in their checks than 2009. That takes money directly out of the economy, and puts these folks at risk of homelessness in some cases.<\/p>\n
And, of course, the cuts to CalWorks have all but decimated that welfare to work program<\/a>. The simple fact is that you simply can’t cut, cut, cut and not expect ramifications. This isn’t just waste fraud and abuse, these are real people’s lives at stake.<\/p>\n
And so when the Republicans deny that we need additional revenue, ask them to explain to that child without insurance why they can’t go to the doctor when they are sick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fortunately for us, the California Budget Project is doing a lot of the hard work of documenting some of the impacts of the massive cuts we’ve had over the last few years. And unsurprisingly, the cuts have really been painful for the poor especially.<\/p>\n
The nonpartisan California Budget Project last week issued fact sheets on recent cuts<\/a> to programs that give stipends to the poor and disabled, families going from welfare to work and a health insurance program for needy kids.<\/p>\n
Jean Ross, executive director of the project, said the idea came from one result of a Field Poll question showing that about half the state’s residents felt no impact from California budget cuts.<\/p>\n
“We were trying to document that there had been large cuts and large amounts of dollars lost,” Ross said. <\/p>\n
Her staff set out to examine how several programs were hit and how each county may have swaths of people struggling to cover costs. (California Watch<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The results? Well, the cuts to the healthy families program<\/a> have meant that 50,000 fewer children will have insurance. The disabled and others receiving suplemental SSI payments, will see almost 15% less in their checks than 2009. That takes money directly out of the economy, and puts these folks at risk of homelessness in some cases.<\/p>\n