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Budget Cuts Impact Group Homes

Published January 7, 2009, 1:50 pm, R News

Service providers say the poor, elderly and disabled will be disproportionately affected by the governor's proposed budget cuts. "If you're handicap they don't think we have a say," group home resident Kathy Hendrick said.

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