Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Some vital budget cuts due to the sequester

Columbia Journalism Review highlights a few cuts
  • the chief federal public defender in southern Ohio, who laid himself off;  
  • 50 Head Start teachers in Kentucky thrown into poverty along with their children when they were laid off; 
  • Florida workers whose last four weeks of extended unemployment benefits were denied without warning;
  • a woman made homeless by hurricane Katrina eight years ago, who was about to get housing but did not; 
  • a physician whose breast cancer research grant was slashed 75 percent; 
  • elderly Meals on Wheels participants who will eat less often;
  • cancer patients whose life-extending medicines are no longer available to them.
We're really lowering the deficit, which is our most important problem.

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