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Budget Watch
The following are updates from newspapers, reports and other sources on Ohio's budget process in regard to social services issues.
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October 2009
September 2009
August 2009
- Lifelines exec decries fund cuts (August 18, The Vindicator)
- LifeLines faces big cutbacks: Leaner budget means fewer mental health services in county (August 14, Tribune Chronicle)
- State Budgeting Matters: New State Budget Puts Severe Burden on Local Partners and the Services They Deliver (August 13, The Center for Community Solutions newsletter)
- Mental health cuts concern area professionals (August 13, The Crescent-News)
- Mental-health cuts scaring agencies; Board prepares to slash $10.8 million (August 11, The Columbus Dispatch)
- Local lawmakers hope to restore cuts made to home-aid program (August 8, Dayton Daily News)
- Home-care cuts may push more seniors out of homes (August 8, Dayton Daily News)
- Ohio budget cuts hurt Cuyahoga County child-care program, Passport for the elderly (August 3, Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Budget cut; now what? Mental health officials struggle with how to replace money trimmed by state (August 1, Marietta Times)
July 2009
- Campaign to Protect Ohio's Future asks Ohioans to take its 2009 State Budget Impact Survey (July 30)
- Nursing homes win again; State's out-of-whack policy on senior care is expensive, denies choices to elderly (July 25, The Columbus Dispatch editorial)
- Budget will cause future problems (July 22, Tribune Chronicle editorial)
- Ohio finally has budget but no plan (July 19, Dayton Daily News editorial)
- UHCAN Ohio comments on the state budget effects (July 15, The Columbus Dispatch, letter to the editor)
- Impact of state budget cuts unclear for now (July 15, Vindicator)
- Local reaction worrisome to state budget (July 14, Canton Rep)
- Advocates say budget will have a body count (July 14, The Columbus Dispatch)
- State budget gets final touches (July 13, The Columbus Dispatch)
- Impasse ends, slots to begin;
Gambling won't save social programs from $2.4 billion in cuts (July 11, The Columbus Dispatch)
- Governor, legislators agree on budget terms (July 10, The Columbus Dispatch)
- Columbus throws over the most vulnerable (July 9, Dayton Daily News editorial)
- When cuts hit home: Medicaid cuts helping to uproot seniors and costing Ohio more (July 9, The Columbus Dispatch)
- Parent testimony to the Finance and Appropriations Committee regarding private duty nursing for adults (July 9)
- General Assembly approves second one-week interim budget to run through July 14 (July 7)
- Governor, lawmakers failing Ohio (July 7, Dayton Daily News)
- Coalition for Healthy Communities calls for leadership on state budget (PDF file) (July 2)
June 2009
- Campaign to Protect Ohio launches radio ad campaign calling Ohio leaders to raise revenues (PDF file) (June 30)
- Ohio budget crisis forces food banks to scramble (June 30, Dayton Daily News)
- Advocates stage protest at Ohio Statehouse (June 30)
- Mental health cuts criticized (June 30, The Marion Star - article no longer available online)
- ADAMH sues state over funding formula (June 30, The Columbus Dispatch)
- Cuts to Cuyahoga County's mental health funding will cost more in the long run (June 28, The Plain Dealer)
- Dayton mom gives face to state budget cut fears (June 28, Dayton Daily News)
- Long-term-care reform could save big money (June 27, The Columbus Dispatch, letter to the editor)
- Statehouse endgame: Will Ohio ever gain effective control of Medicaid costs? Not if the nursing-home lobby continues to get its way (June 26, Akron-Beacon Journal editorial)
- Add food banks to list of agencies protesting cuts in Ohio's budget: State provides groups with about $17 million for food in past 2 years (June 26, Akron-Beacon Journal)
- Ohio's shift of mental health funds away from Cuyahoga is outrageous (June 26, The Plain Dealer editorial)
- No special treatment: Lawmakers should stop kowtowing to the dictates of nursing-home industry (June 26, The Columbus Dispatch editorial)
- Ohio nursing homes object to budget cuts (June 26, CantonRep)
- Disability Policy Coalition sends letter to Governor and Conference Committee (PDF file) (June 25, Disability Policy Coalition)
- Targeting vulnerable is wrong budget fix (June 25, Dayton Daily News editorial)
- Ohioans decry deep cuts to services; Toledoans join others to protest ways to patch $3.2B state budget hole (June 25, Toledo Blade)
- Budget protests turn to health; Advocates warn of dire effects of proposed cuts (June 25, he Columbus Dispatch)
- Cuts to early education would harm Ohio's long-term goals (June 24, Dayton Daily News editorial)
- AARP and other groups urge governor to stop overspending on nursing homes (June 24, The Columbus Dispatch editorial)
- Enough already: Lawmakers should stop allowing nursing homes to plunder Ohio's treasury (June 24, The Columbus Dispatch)
- Video of Mental Health Rally at the Statehouse (June 24, The Columbus Dispatch)
- Mental health, substance-abuse agencies also facing uncertainty (June 24, CantonRep)
- Ohio caught in a web of Catch-22s (June 23, Cincinnati Enquirer editorial - article no longer available online)
- Nursing homes skilled at securing aid (June 21, The Columbus Dispatch)
- Home care preferred by most (June 7, Toledo Blade, letter to the editor)
- Ohio House Speaker Armond Budish's dual role on Medicaid issue: government cost-cutter, advocate for elderly (June 4, The Plain Dealer)
May 2009
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