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State Service Agencies Face Cuts
Produced by City Room on Wednesday, July 01, 2009
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Social service agencies in Illinois have begun to make cuts to their programs because of a lack of a state budget.
Kathy Doherty is the head of Between Friends, a domestic violence agency. She says without a guarantee of state funding...the organization immediately made program and staff cuts.
DOHERTY: Cutting services cost lives. We'll be able to serve 3,000 less survivors than we did last year. But in Cook County, 17,000 fewer victims of domestic violence will get served.
Doherty says cuts will continue if state lawmakers don't come up with a budget soon.
Last night, legislators approved a spending plan that falls billions of dollars short of covering state costs. Governor Pat Quinn is scheduled to veto that plan Wednesday afternoon.
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